[ILUG] ISO OOXML Standardisation process being questioned...

[Kereoz]

Gareth 'bigbro' Eason wrote:
> 
>     In case you've not seen it, it looks like the BSI (British Standards 
> Institute) are being brought to court by the UKUUG (UK Unix Users' 
> Group) over their about turn re standardisation of the Microsoft OOXML 
> specification.
> 
>     Reg article at 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/bsi_ooxml_vote_high_court
> 
> 
>     I'm not sure what can be done here in Ireland, but at the very 
> least, a number of letters from interested parties to the NSAI (National 
> Standards Authority for Ireland) questioning their stance on it might be 
> appropriate.
> 
>     Thoughts?
> 
>     Best regards,
>     -->Gar
> 
> 

By the way, the french foundation APRIL incriminates the french 
government of being corrupted by Microsoft concerning the adoption of 
the OOXML standard.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080419005201783

In another press release, they say :
"L'April considère que les récentes décisions concernant la 
normalisation des formats de documents bureautiques sont purement 
politiques et font abstraction de toute réalité technique et de la 
distortion de concurrence associée."

Which means

"The APRIL deliberates that recently token decisions concerning office 
documents standards normalisation are purely politic and absolutely 
don't match neither any actual technical aspect nor the associated 
concurrency distrortion."

-- 
Christophe Hauser, http://www.kereoz.org
Association Actux, http://actux.tuxfamily.org