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How Microsoft raped ISO 3 comments By AviPublished: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:18:29 -0300 Updated: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:13:13 -0300 Published: 20 Mar 2008 Updated: 2 Apr 2008 Published: 7:18 am Updated: 9:13 am Categories: OpenDocument Format Tags: featured lang:en tech:okOne of the most critical and discussed points of the whole OOXML subject is how the specification lets you include binary proprietary information.
Let me show you how it happens with a piece of an OOXML document, the red-marked text is the problematic part (see for yourself, §6.2.2.14, paper page 4,813, lines 7–13):
<v:shape>
<o:ink i=”AMgFHQSWC+YFASAAaAwAAAAAAMA…” annotation=”t” contentType=”application/x-ms-ink”/>
</v:shape>
So [...]
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Subscribe to this tag or categoryAqui na IBM um funcionário troca de laptop mais ou menos a cada 4 anos. Minha última troca foi em novembro e recebi um ThinkPad T61 com CPU dual core, 2GB RAM e 120GB em disco. Uma maravilha de máquina.
Em termos de software, o computador já veio com Windows XP Pro, Lotus Notes, MS Word+Excel+PowerPoint [...]
Hoje recebi o seguinte e-mail da ABNT:
De: Milena Pires
Assunto: Formal Appeal
Prezados Membros,
Por solicitação do Diretor de Normalização, Sr. Eugenio Guilherme Tolstoy De Simone, informamos que, após a análise dos comentários dos Srs. Murilo Dantas e Deivi Lopes, a ABNT decidiu solicitar à ISO o cancelamento de todo o processo de elaboração da ISO/IEC DIS 29500 [...]
ISO has a press release about the 4 countries (India, Brazil, South Africa and Venezuela) and their appeal against the OOXML standardization.
The important part of it is this:
According to the ISO/IEC rules, a document which is the subject of an appeal cannot be published as an ISO/IEC International Standard while the appeal is going on. [...]
There was an ISO/IEC/JTC1 meeting in Oslo, Norway wednesday and the local community protested against OOXML and demanded more integrity in ISO’s processes. I couldn’t agree more.
Photos by Martin Bekkelund. More info on Zak Greant’s blog.
If there is one or more technical problems, the NB must disapprove the DIS. This is the rationale behind this idea.
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