Le crociate sono state sempre il mio forte, e come me probabilmente altre centinaia di persone hanno posto veti su veti alla non approvazione di questo standard il risultato è che

Così ISO ha ieri formalmente comunicato al mondo quanto era trapelato nelle ore precedenti, ossia l’esito del primo round di voto sulla standardizzazione di OOXML, Office Open XML, la specifica sostenuta da Microsoft e integrata nei suoi prodotti di punta ma invisa ad alcuni suoi competitor e ad una parte del mondo open source. [From PI: ISO, OpenXML al primo round non passa]

Microsoft’s failed bid to make its “Open XML” format an ISO standard was certainly newsworthy, though it was slightly surprising to see it covered in detail in the Wall Street Journal, and to hear about it this evening on MarketPlace. [From Microsoft Open XML Failed ISO Bid Makes Big News]

Ma non sono le battaglie che fanno vincere la guerra. Tanto meno il trambusto che possiamo fare noi piccoli e tenaci utenti, come gli abitanti di una nuova Cartagine…

Victorious anti-OOXML campaigners would do well to think twice about crowing over Microsoft’s PR spin on the vote. The next step for OOXML is an ISO “ballot resolution meeting” in February where voting countries are able to change their ballot if they deemed their comments to have been addressed. Rome’s greatest days came after Cannae—after losing 70k in the bloodiest day of battle ever, Rome went away to lick its wounds, raised another army, did battle again, and kicked Hannibal and Carthage’s asses. [From OOXML stalls at ISO]

Mi auguro di non dover fare la stessa fine

The Linux Foundation has issued a call to all nations asking them to just say “no” to Microsoft’s bid to make OOXML a standard. The plea comes amid accusations that Microsoft isn’t playing fair.

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Open and Royalty-free Specification
Office XML Formats are based on industry standard XML and ZIP technologies, support full integration by any technology provider, and are available via a royalty-free license. The Format specification will be published and made available under the same royalty-free license that exists for the Office 2003 Reference Schemas—openly offered and available for broad industry use.

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