Unix Group Takes UK Standards Body To Court Over OOXML

superglaze writes "Halfway through the two-month window of opportunity during which OOXML's ISO standardization can be derailed by a formal objection from a national standards body, the UK Unix Users Group is trying to force the British Standards Institution to do just that. According to the Unix Users Group, the BSI used a flawed decision-making process when they chose to approve OOXML in the ISO vote. 'The UKUUG is also folding in many other complaints about Office Open XML (OOXML), such as unresolved patent issues and a lack of completion in the specification's documentation, and is calling for the High Court of Justice to force a judicial review of the BSI's decision.' This is not the first time a country's ISO vote has been challenged."

Comments

This molehill is gigantic!

[BadAnalogyGuy]

The best thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

Instead of focusing energy on the ISO vote, focus on getting implementations of the standard that *you* think is reasonable into widespread usage. If you think it is ODF or RTF or HTML or any of the hundreds of file formats for document representation that should be the choice of governments, then get good, usable versions of software into the market.

Standing around crying because Microsoft bought a standard is only counterproductive and makes you come off looking like a bunch of whiners. On top of that, because the whining is explicitly anti-this new standard, it is implicitly perceived to be against progress. So you shoot yourself in the foot by appearing to want to go technologically backwards and like whiny bitches at the same time.

Save the energy you want to spend on protests and lawsuits and direct it towards building a better product.

This is whiney nerd crap.

[joocemann]

Since when is this important? Sounds like a few people whining about things, and others whining back at them. People should whine less and work more. 10,000 news-worthy things happen every day, yet this insubstantial lard of a 'problem' is on here? Surely there are more important things to talk about, like the availability of banana laffy taffy. cry/whine/sue, thats all most people know how to do nowadays. What a shame of an existence.

Re:Of course you haven't seen them, they're all 0/

[Macthorpe]

Ohnoes! I didn't spoonfeed you freely available information, someone else did, and therefore you win the internets!

Grow up.