Open Standards, OOXML | Comments (3)
The fact is, nobody outside the Ecma and probably ISO knows how OOXML looks like now. It is particularly cumbersome, not so much because that could amount to one more irregularity against the JTC1’s SC 34, but also because it creates yet one more precedent in the long story of anti-competitive practices by Microsoft. At […]
Charles @ May 5, 2008
Open Standards, OOXML | Comments (0)
Ah, I see you were expecting me to comment on the olympic catastrophy induced by the race for the flame around the world. No. Today I am going to tell you about a protest that has taken place in Norway at the occasion of the ISO SC34 meeting, where odd decisions about standards were taken. […]
Charles @ April 10, 2008
OOo Postings, Open Standards, OOXML, Free Software, OpenDocument Format | Comments (7)
I shall not complain that much about what happened with OOXML. In fact, the act of standardizing OOXML has not really brought any significant advantages to OOXML. ODF is an ISO standard and so is OOXML. That’s what I call a draw, and Microsoft has been battling hard for a bloody draw, as in the […]
Charles @ April 7, 2008
OOo Postings, Open Standards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format | Comments (3)
It is now certain that OOXML has been approved by the national standards organizations. France finally abstained after an interesting last minute intervention by Microsoft. Odd things happened and the final announcement by the Afnor today would have been a farce if it had not been official.
It is always easy to claim you could […]
Charles @ March 31, 2008
OOo Postings, Open Standards, Ars Aperta, OpenDocument Format | Comments (0)
Today is Document Freedom Day: Roughly 200 teams from more than 60
countries worldwide are organising local activities to raise awareness
for Document Freedom and Open Standards. To support the initiatives
surrounding the first day to celebrate document liberation, DFD
starter packs containing a DFD flag, t-shirts and leaflets have been
sent to the first 100 registered teams over the […]
Charles @ March 26, 2008
OOo Postings, Open Standards, OOXML, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument Format | Comments (2)
Today the Easter Bunny (that means me on this blog), who’s very early because it’s Good Friday but also the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad and the first day of Spring, is bringing you some links for you to read this week-end.
- Rick Jelliffe gets a cold shower by the SQL standard guru. Boy, that […]
Charles @ March 21, 2008
Open Standards, OOXML | Comments (2)
Update: I think the article from CIO says it all. The Head of Delegation of the ANSI (USA) explains what went wrong. I think it’s a pity that the BRM ended up like this. In a nutshell, the whole idea of the BRM was to discuss the proposals from Ecma and the comments made by the delegations, […]
Charles @ February 29, 2008
Open Standards, OOo Postings, OOXML, Open Source, OpenOffice.org, Free Software, OpenDocument Format | Comments (0)
Before you run away from this page thinking that I will vomit the snakes of hell on Microsoft’s latest press release, I just wanted clarify that it will not be the case, because I think the message Microsoft has sent yesterday has been completely misunderstood. Here’s why.
To be sure, this press release should be taken […]
Charles @ February 22, 2008
OOo Postings, Open Standards, OOXML | Comments (4)
Short Answer: When it becomes manipulation. And before some of the Microsofties coiled in their upscale building of the rue de l’Université in Paris start to wonder if they should not be doing something about me, let me just point you to this link: The now famous Plamondon Files, one of whose is adequately named […]
Charles @ February 19, 2008
Open Standards, OOXML, Ars Aperta | Comments (1)
I think my trip to Geneva is going to be exciting. Exciting and interesting at the same time. There will be surprizes, laughters, and laments. But mind you, Geneva does not matter. It never mattered. The OOXML camp is trying to lure you into thinking that anything bad that could happen in Geneva during the […]
Charles @ February 18, 2008