[Linux-Biella] Diciamo NO a OOXML

[Federico 'Phate' Pistono]

I ask the national members of ISO to vote "NO" in the ballot of ISO
DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML 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 information missing 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 software that fully
or partially implements the OOXML specification without being liable
to patent lawsuits or patent license fees by Microsoft;
   6. This format conflicts with existing 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 any
date before the year 1900: such bugs affect the OOXML specification as
well as software applications like Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and
2007.
   8. This standard proposal was not 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

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