FSFE ignoring OOXML?

[Sean DALY]

Torsten is not saying whom he tried to contact... I don't know if FSFE is coordinating activity on this subject, however I have been contributing to the Groklaw coverage in particular this article for which I translated France's standards body AFNOR response:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007030308154032

see also:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070312083134403



Andrew Updegrove, a US-based lawyer, is following these developments, see:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070312213800675



Bob Sutor of IBM comments frequently on this issue and provided a link to the countries' responses (PDF):
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1528



The official Microsoft line can be found here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/


Sean



> Message du 24/04/07 10:26
> De : "MJ Ray" <mjr at phonecoop.coop>
> A : discussion at fsfeurope.org
> Copie à : 
> Objet : FSFE ignoring OOXML?
> 
> There's just been a call for help on a debian mailing list.
> In amongst it, it includes the phrase "I did not get a response
> from the Free Software Foundation Europe."  What's happened?
> 
> > From bounce-debian-project=mjr=phonecoop.coop at lists.debian.org Tue Apr 24 06:41:23 2007
> > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:41:08 +0200
> > From: "Torsten Werner" <twerner at debian.org>
> > Reply-To: mail.twerner at googlemail.com
> > To: debian-project at lists.debian.org
> > Subject: ballot period for ECMA 376 / DIS 29500 (aka OOXML)
> > List-Id: <debian-project.lists.debian.org>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I want to remind you that the ballot period about Microsoft/ECMA
> > office document format  runs until the beginning of September and
> > national ISO bodies have to vote about the fasttrack process.
> > Microsoft is very active in this process, free software people are not
> > as far as I know, e.g. I did not get a response from the Free Software
> > Foundation Europe. The risk of a successful standardization of OOXML
> > is the marginalization of ODF (ISO 26300) which would make migrations
> > from non-free software to free software more difficult in the long
> > run.
> >
> > If you are interested in preventing that scenario please take action
> > *now*. Contact your national ISO bodies and tell them your interests.
> > In Germany you can become a member of DIN's working group. I can
> > explain the details if someone is interested. Maybe that is possible
> > in other countries, too.
> >
> > A good starting point for more information is
> > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070123071154671 .
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Torsten
> >
> > -- 
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> > homepage: http://www.twerner42.de/
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