pls, guys, why stop at 42?
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?ODFWins&1
-jf
On 8/8/07, Anand Vaidya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> You probably know that Singapore will vote at ISO regarding MS-OOXML either
> being accepted as ISO standard or being rejected and hence leaving ODF or
> ISO26300 as the doc standard.
>
> I have been tracking ODF vs OOXML for a long time and I have been through
> grokdoc.net, blogs of Rob Weir, Bob Sutor [IBM ers] , Jason Matusow,
> Joanathan [Microsoft staff] as well as Jonathan Schwartz [Sun], and Miguel
> de Icaza [Novell guy, Gnome coder, mostly pro-MS, I suspect] as well as
> general media.
>
> Last friday, I attended the ITSC/IDA XML workgroup Technical Committee meeting
> which will recommend the vote { Yes or No} to the ITSC council. I will
> publish the report openly soon.
>
> I have a quick presentation here:
> http://www.asianlinux.org/downloads/docs/advocacy/ODF-vs-OOXML-v1.1.odp
>
> that I used to prove that MS_OOXML is defective and should be rejected. So
> far, I think we [pro-ODF team] did quite well.
>
> I am supposed to submit my final list of objections towards MS-OOXML by
> Friday.
>
> I would appreciate any more info or interesting fact that I have missed out
> (eg: I just noticed that OOXML has problems with formulae) or notes that
> provides us stronger ammo to defeat the MS team.
>
> Even if it is a repetition of what I know, I don't mind. You can email me
> offlist. Just reply to this email, so that the email will get classified
> correctly.
>
>
> Regards
> Anand
>
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