Say <NO> to Microsoft Office broken standard

[Gettinther]

This is an online petition where you can sign against ms' ooxml.

Apart from the mentioned problems on the web page, the specs are incomplete in their description of algorithms and require knowledge of closed source MSOffice-code. Also the name OOXML gives the false impression it's open office-related. This is a corporate move, not a genuine effort to standardise formats.

http://www.noooxml.org/petition

[lajja]

I've done that twice.
Would be sick if Microsoft won this,
really.

[Gettinther]

4 countries (china, brazil, india, spain) have already said no but a few have said yes (usa and germany and some eastern european countries). Sweden said yes but their vote got invalidated as one voter double voted :-)

The final day for voting is the 2nd of September so we'll know on Monday.

On another front, Google has joined Linux against Microsoft. Now we'll see if M$'s got guts enough to try and take on Google.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9757498-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001_3-0-5

[werner]

I would stay cool w.r.t. that problem.

Its always in the history the same thing, that whom has the power, and loose the former reasons, makes anything to keep it. As longer he keeps heself in this manner, as more the whole sistem which permits this dont fits more for nothing and will be leaved backwards and downwards together with him too

I'm glad to see that this is happening with USA and Germany, because this means that these sistems are not immune and not strong enough to survive against this rule. Proportionally as their democratical control dont exist more, corruption and other inner problems have to make their work inefficient, expensive etc. and block their inner functions! Why being worry about fading away such old sistems in which everything 'sticks' because of corruption and nepotism ?? They have to make space for more dign cultures, like asian, south-american, african ones and others which their decisions make by objectivity.

M$ will remain with big merits in the history to have contributed to this and brought downwards the USA and its followers. Things like the current voting, are not only a simple 'theoretical' test of the 'spoiledness' of the different cultures/people, but a very 'practical' mechanism, with a strong effect in bringing downwards and sorting out indign cultures.

Thus, I hope truely and honestly, that each country, exactly how its inner spoiledness fits with this, not only votes in favor that M$ products enter into its public administration, and after really gets it, but that it furthermore makes laws that each of its officials have to study exhaustly and try to understand the long OOXML specifications and other M$ documents ... And the same with all other MS$-like pretendents in all areas, so that most quickly everything goes to stick and down

[AmyRose]

I signed this a while ago. I wonder what the heck Microsoft is trying to pull here because you can't call a format "open" unless it's fully documented and won't get implementers in trouble over patents, etc. I guess we need to pound in Ballmer's and Gates' heads that you can't call it "open" just because you can open it in Notepad...

[Gettinther]

Here is an interesting insight into the microsoft reasons for pushing ooxml.

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/obla_de_oba_da.html

[Iyeru]

I feel like saying, don't use XHTML altogether... it's usually worthless to someone who wants to make JUST a page.