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

[Yoon Kit Yong]

Ive noticed that quite a few of us have already signed up!

good stuff..

This certainly is a more civilized approach over the vendor's astroturfing
with templates and spamming ANSI. [
http://www.incits.org/DIS29500/DIS29500.htm ]

We are in contact with the NoOOXML guys and they will provide to us a list
of Malaysians which we can submit to SIRIM.

We need to show SIRIM / DSM that the Malaysian public is well reflected at
SIRIM TC4, with the 9-1 vote AGAINST MSOOXML back in January 2007. Since
then, there has been no improvements to the draft, and yet more
discrepancies are being located by the day!

Please help spread the word! And if you havent signed up yet, please
consider doing so. Remember, your letters which you wrote in support for ODF
back in Oct 06, has been a tremendous help. This is far easier to do, and
its just a web-page away.


yk.

On 25/06/07, Hasannudin Saidin <hasan at my.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> From Open Malaysia <http://www.openmalaysiablog.com> blog:
>
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>
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> *Monday, 25 June 2007*
> *Say "NO" to OOXML as an ISO Standard*
>  <http://www.noooxml.org/petition>
> http://www.noooxml.org/petition
>
> Click the above to sign a global online petition to let National Bodies of
> the *member countries of ISO*<http://iso.nocrew.org/iso/en/aboutiso/isomembers/MemberList.MemberSummary?MEMBERCODE=10>(
> *International Organization for Standardization* <http://www.iso.org/>)
> know that you say *"NO"* to approving OOXML as an ISO Standard.
>
> Malaysians, this means you are saying *"NO*" to *SIRIM*<http://www.sirim.my/services_SQ_list.asp?id=2>,
> the organization that manages the approval process for *DSM*<http://www.standardsmalaysia.gov.my/>(Department of Standards Malaysia).
>
> Visit the *<NO>OOXML site* <http://www.noooxml.org/> 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> <http://www.noooxml.org/petition>
> http://www.noooxml.org/petition
>
> So Malaysians and others, go ahead, click the above and sign the petition.
>
> *Email this*<http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailFlare?itemTitle=Say%20no%20to%20OOXML%20as%20an%20ISO%20Standard&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openmalaysiablog.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fsay-no-to-ooxml.html>•
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> Posted by Hasan on Monday, 25 June 2007 at 05:26 PM in *OOXML*<http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/ooxml/index.html#more>,
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