[ossig] Fw: Say "NO" to OOXML as an ISO Standard

Tue Aug 21 02:50:27 MYT 2007

Oops... I meant Malaysia's DSM/SIRIM will likely submit our vote on 30
August 2007 before the long weekend.

Hasan.

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Malaysians, say "NO" to OOXML by signing the online petition at:
http://www.noooxml.org/petition

It's less than 2 weeks to the ISO deadline for country National Bodies to
vote their approval or disaaproval to Microsoft's OOXML as an ISO
international standard.

Malaysia's DSM/SIRIM will likely submit our vote on 20 August 2007 before
the long weekend. The SIRIM committee will have a meeting on Monday, 27
August to decide the vote.

If you have not yet signed, or not yet encouraged your friends, colleagues,
partners, etc., to sign the petition, please do so now.

We will compile the Malaysian signatories on Thursday, 23 August and send
to SIRIM on Friday, 24 August.

The last count and list of Malaysian signatories are found here:
http://hasansaidin.typepad.com/openmalaysia/malaysia_noooxml.html

The Bahasa Malaysia version is here: http://www.noooxml.org/petition-my

Let's do it!

Thanks,
Hasan.

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From Open Malaysia blog:

Monday, 25 June 2007
Say "NO" to OOXML as an ISO Standard

http://www.noooxml.org/petition

Click the above to sign a global online petition to let National Bodies of
the member countries of ISO (International Organization for Standardization
) know that you say "NO" to approving OOXML as an ISO Standard.

Malaysians, this means you are saying "NO" to SIRIM, the organization that
manages the approval process for DSM (Department of Standards Malaysia).

Visit the <NO>OOXML site for more information, but here is text of the
petition:

      Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

      I ask the national members of ISO to vote "NO" in the ballot of ISO
      DIS 29500 (Open OfficeXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons:
         1. There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format
            (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to
            industry, government and citizens;
         2. There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification:
            Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not
            a file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
         3. There is missing information from the specification document,
            for example how to do a autoSpaceLikeWord95 or
            useWord97LineBreakRules;
         4. More than 10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed
            standard do not validate as XML;
         5. There is no guarantee that anybody can write a software that
            fully or partially implements the OOXML specification without
            being liable to patent damages or patent license fees by
            Microsoft;
         6. This standard proposal conflicts with other ISO standards, such
            as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes
            for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC
            10118-3 (cryptographic hash);
         7. There is a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids to
            enter any date before the year 1900: such bugs affects the
            OOXML specification as well as software versions such as
            Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007.
         8. This standard proposal has not been created by bringing
            together the experience and expertise of all interested parties
            (such as the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators),
            but by Microsoft alone.

http://www.noooxml.org/petition

So Malaysians and others, go ahead, click the above and sign the petition.

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Posted by Hasan on Monday, 25 June 2007 at 05:26 PM in OOXML, PostsByHasan
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