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Subject: Six questions to national standardisation bodies
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:19:20 +0200
From: Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)gnu.org>, Georg Greve <greve(a)fsfeurope.org>
To: discussion(a)fsfeurope.org
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Six questions to national standardisation bodies
Tuesday 26 June 2007
It seems that many people have been confused by Microsoft's attempt
at trying to portray MS-OOXML as an Open Standard, which includes
methods such as paying bloggers to manipulate Wikipedia or trying
to confuse people about competition on the basis of a common
standard, which is generally good for competition, vs competition
of multiple standards, which is generally bad for competition.
Since this confusion exists in many national standardisation
bodies, it is not surprising to also find it on the net and in
various online sources. If they are not outright manipulated, that
is. So it comes as no surprise that journalists have a hard time to
see through the smoke, and not everyone does as good a job as the
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ).
We therefore decided that it was time to help people working with
the national standardisation bodies and journalists inform others
about the issues in a way that would not require more than 5-10
minutes on the receiving end. The result has just gone online: Six
questions to national standardisation bodies by the Free Software
Foundation Europe (FSFE), also available in a PDF for pretty
printing. These six questions, namely
1. Application independence?
2. Supporting pre-existing Open Standards?
3. Backward compatibility for all vendors?
4. Proprietary extensions?
5. Dual standards?
6. Legally safe?
raise issues that every national standardisation body should have
satisfactory answers for, otherwise it must vote No in the ISO/IEC
process and request that Microsoft incorporate its work on MS-OOXML
into ISO/IEC 26300:2006, the Open Document Format (ODF).
In order to counter the misinformation that is currently floating
around on the net it is important to spread the word far and make
sure that these six questions are submitted to every single
national standardisation body and used as widely as possible to
inform people in politics and media.
In case you want to link the page, you can use this button
http://fsfeurope.org/graphics/msooxml_small.png
to link to the page, which exists in two versions:
* 250x98 pixel version, code:
<a href="http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions"
border="0"><img
src="http://fsfeurope.org/graphics/msooxml_small.png" /></a>
* 500x195 pixels version, code:
<a href="http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions"
border="0"><img src="http://fsfeurope.org/graphics/msooxml.png"
/></a>
Please help us spread the word.
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Jonas Öberg
Free Software Foundation Europe ( Join the Fellowship )
Tel. +46-31-780 21 61 Mob. +46-733 423 962 ( http://fsfe.org )
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Hejsan,
FSFE anordnar en sommarträff på ITUniversitetet (Lindholmen[1]). Vi
tänkte förena nytta med nöje och har för att underlätta detta satt upp
ett litet schema.
17.00 - 18.30 FSFE informerar om aktiviteter och vad vi gjort
* Fellowship
* GPLv3
* SELF
* EU
* Kommentarer kring rms2007.se
18.30 - 19.00 Frågor etc
19.00 - xx.xx Vi går ut mot kajkanten och fortsätter
diskussionen där samt äter mat.
Är det något du saknar i någon av delarna av schemat, vill du bjuda in
en föreläsare från en annan grupp/förening?
Hör av dig till sandklef(a)fsfeurope.org
För att kunna planera så bra som möjligt ber vi dig att anmäla dig
till sandklef(a)fsfeurope.org.
Mvh Christof Thim, Henrik Sandklef och Jonas Öberg
[1] ITUniversitetet (Lindholmen), Hus Svea (våning 4),
http://www.ituniv.se/images/karta_it3.gif
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Christof Thim
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Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org)
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