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Brazil Appeals OOXML Decision

Posted by timothy on from the this-space-reserved-for-obscure-xml dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Brazil is now appealing the ISO's decision to standardize OOXML, following South Africa's lead. Interestingly, part of the reason this took so long was that Microsoft supporters at the meetings kept asking for delays because they 'weren't prepared' to discuss the issues raised. And the ISO as a whole is moving rather slowly, after that delay in releasing the DIS. But at least the ISO is also rewriting the directives in a special working group so this doesn't happen again. Of course, they'd have to be strict about making sure the directives are followed for it to help."

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  1. Re:ISO = I Sold Out by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If ISO is, itself, ISO9000-compliant then they must have procedures in place to ensure that they were at least this incompetent a year ago, from which we can extrapolate the number of bogus important standards.

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  2. The speed of law by HalAtWork · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft moves faster than the speed of the law.

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  3. Yes, but... by jd · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...what is the speed of law in a perfect vaccuum?

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    1. Re:Yes, but... by peragrin · · Score: 2, Funny

      well to find out i propose we put politicians in a vacuum and then listen to how fast they can talk.

      That would be the speed of law in a vacuum. since most politicians are lawyers it is a humane way to treat them. after all they aren't rats.

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    2. Re:Yes, but... by Drantin · · Score: 4, Funny

      an African or European politician?

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    3. Re:Yes, but... by Daimanta · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't know. WAAAARGGHHH

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  4. Re:first post! by kamathln · · Score: 3, Funny

    The license that the patented parts of OOXML is available under is not compatible with any open source license.

    Instead developers do rely on reverse engineering laws (which have some provisions for patents) as they always have in the past for developing .doc filters. You mean now we will have to reverse engineer an ISO standard? Now I have seen it all. Yamaraj, I am all dressed up.