Urmas
Of which it has never been fully ratified and accepted as an open
document standard, the argument still proceeds today over the MS open
standards.
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Standardization process
Main article: Standardization of Office Open XML
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML>
Microsoft submitted initial material to Ecma International
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecma_International> Technical Committee
TC45, where it was standardized to become ECMA-376, approved in December
2006.^[13] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-13>
This standard was then fast-tracked in the Joint Technical Committee 1
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTC_1> of ISO and IEC. After initially
failing to pass
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML_Intermediate_5_Month_Ballot_Results>,
an amended version of the format received the necessary votes for
approval as an ISO/IEC Standard as the result of a JTC 1
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_JTC1> fast tracking
standardization process that concluded in April 2008.^[14]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-ISOIECapproval-14>
The resulting four part International Standard (designated ISO/IEC
29500:2008) was published in November 2008^[15]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-15> and can be
downloaded from the ITTF
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Task_Force>.^[16]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-16> A
technically equivalent set of texts is published by Ecma as /ECMA-376
Office Open XML File Formats --- 2nd edition/ (December 2008); they can
be downloaded from their web site.^[17]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-StandardECMA376-17>
The ISO standardization of Office Open XML was controversial and
embittered,^[18]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-infoworld-embittered-18>
with much discussion both about the specification and about the
standardization process.^[19]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-19> According to
/InfoWorld <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoWorld>/:
OOXML was opposed by many on grounds it was unneeded, as software
makers could use OpenDocument Format
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument> (ODF), a less
complicated office software format that was already an international
standard.^[18]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-infoworld-embittered-18>
--- InfoWorld
The same /InfoWorld <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoWorld>/ article
reported that IBM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM> (which supports the
ODF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODF> format) threatened to leave
standards bodies that it said allow dominant corporations like Microsoft
to wield undue influence. The article further says that Microsoft was
accused of co-opting the standardization process by leaning on countries
to ensure that it got enough votes at the ISO for Office Open XML to
pass; although it does not specify exactly who accused Microsoft.^[18]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-infoworld-embittered-18>
Richard Stallman <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman> of the
Free Software Foundation
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation> has stated that
"Microsoft offers a gratis patent license for OOXML on terms which do
not allow free <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software>
implementations."^[20]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#cite_note-stallman-20>
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Please validate your knowledge pool before labelling others as quote
"pushing your vendor-locked ODF crap here please." unquote.
Have a good day
Andrew Brown
On 31/07/2013 04:29 AM, Urmas wrote:
"Andrew Brown":
So the open document standards were
born and ratified and accpeted by the majority of the world that counts.
Microsoft is using an open standard format called OpenXML. Stop
pushing your vendor-locked ODF crap here please.
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