Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

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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