[Solar-general] victoria sobre microsoft

Mie Sep 5 06:30:05 CEST 2007

ooxml denegado, por ahora

importante logro para el movimiento de soft libre y sus aliados

seria buenop ponerlo en la pagina de solar

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From: rafael bonifaz <rafael.bonifaz en gmail.com>
Date: 04-sep-2007 17:51
Subject: Re: [Ooxml-latin] OOXML, Microsoft y la FFII en el New York Times
To: "Coordinación confidencial de campaña OpenXML.info en
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Aca esta la de El País:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/documentos/Microsoft/seran/estandar/internacional/elpeputec/20070904elpepunet_7/Tes

On 9/4/07, Alberto Barrionuevo <abarrio en ffii.org> wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/technology/04cnd-soft.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1188937075-JcxSIwZWPNujQYg02UKM2A
>
> September 4, 2007
> Microsoft Is Rebuffed by Standards Body
> By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN
>
> Microsoft's bid to extend its dominance in digital documents to the new
> field of open-format documents was unexpectedly rebuffed today when a
> global technical panel refused to designate its Office Open XML as an
> international standard.
>
> The underlying code of an open document format is public, allowing
> developers to improve upon it and create new products that use it
> without having to pay royalties.
>
> Microsoft is seeking to have its format declared a standard so it can
> sell software with open characteristics. Such software is increasingly
> being demanded by national and local governments in Belgium, France,
> Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil, as well as by the state of
> Massachusetts.
>
> Microsoft failed to meet two criteria for a standards designation under
> voting rules of the Geneva-based technical bodies, the International
> Organization for Standardization, known as the I.S.O., and the
> International Electrotechnical Commission.
>
> In five months of electronic balloting that concluded on Sunday, only 51
> countries, or 74 percent of the 87 that had participated, supported
> Microsoft's bid, said Tom Robertson, Microsoft's general manager for
> interoperability and standards, in a statement. Under the group's rules,
> Microsoft needed at least 75 percent.
>
> Microsoft also failed to get the required 66 percent support from
> countries on an I.S.O./I.E.C. panel called the Joint Technical Committee
> 1. Instead, Microsoft won 58 percent of the panel's votes, according to
> a person close to the procedure who did not want to be identified
> because the votes of individual countries had not been made public as of
> late today.
>
> One opponent of Microsoft's bid said the software maker's own aggressive
> lobbying — carried out in the voting countries and often pressed by
> local Microsoft executives — had backfired on the company.
>
> "I think many countries simply resisted what they considered undue
> pressure from Microsoft," said Pieter Hintjens, president of the
> Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a Brussels group that
> opposed Microsoft's request. "In Europe our standards processes are
> sophisticated and Microsoft simply lobbied too hard."
>
> In its statement, Microsoft pledged to work with opponents to amend its
> proposed 2,500-page standard for Office Open XML ahead of a February
> meeting in Geneva where the software maker has the chance to confer with
> participating countries and win back enough votes to secure victory.
>
> Mr. Hintjens said Microsoft will have a hard time winning over countries
> that opposed its standards bid because to do so, Microsoft would be
> forced to officially put into the public domain the secret coding for
> many of its proprietary document formats that already dominate the
> global market, like those in its Office software suite.
>
> "I think they are going to stick to their strategy, which is to try to
> simply get companies to turn their 'no' votes into 'yes' votes," he
> said. "But I don't think it is going to work."
>
> Saludos,
>    Alberto.
>
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