Denmark Becomes Fourth Nation To Protest OOXML

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The rumors of a fourth OOXML complaint turned out to be true. Denmark has become the fourth nation to protest the ISO's acceptance of OOXML, and Groklaw has a translation of their complaint. They now join India, Brazil, and South Africa. There are going to be plenty of questions about deadlines, because people have been given two different deadlines for appeals, and the final DIS of OOXML was late in being distributed and not widely available. In fact, that seems to be one of Denmark's complaints, along with missing XML schemas, contradictory wording, lack of interoperability, and troubles with the maintenance of DIS29500. In other words, we should expect a lot of wrangling over untested rules from here on out, and Microsoft knows how to deal with that."

Comments

Re:Maybe they can go on strike with the Canadians

[Anonymous Coward]

Or maybe some provocative cartoons of Bill Gates raking in some "prophets".

zzz

[Jeff321]

Is anybody else tired of reading OOXML articles every other day?

Somewhere ....

[PPH]

... Balmer is preparing his "Axis of Evil" speach.

Re:Farewell ISO

[Kalriath]

And if the outcry were limited Slashdot and Groklaw then you might have a point. However, the outcry I'm referring to is that raised by the standards bodies of Denmark, India, Brazil and South Africa. Oh, and the UKUUG too, although they're just taking the BSA to court rather than protesting the result. More people need to take the BSA to court. But besides that, half of the aforementioned standards bodies actually haven't protested (like Denmark's!)

So, unless you think that Slashdot has somehow unfairly subverted these bodies, then I think you'll find you're wrong on that one. No, no I don't find that at all. What I do find though is that if you look around, the only people who actually care about this whole thing is the open source folks trying to force governments to legislate Office out of existence (let's face it, that's what you're trying to do - it's not about freedom at all), Microsoft trying to defend against it (using less than savoury tactics may I add) and those of us who just want both sides to shut the fuck up. Seriously. You may say, just "don't read OOXML stories" and "don't read Microsoft stories" but here at Slashdot that's all there fucking is. In closing, kdawson sucks and Groklaw is third rate biased "journalism" at best. Like Fox News.

As for Groklaw, PJ is a paralegal bu training, and at least two of the Groklaw regulars are are
qualified lawyers, either practicing or retired. So it's kind of hard to see how you come to the conclusion that they know nothing about law. I don't think you've ever read the site then, because Groklaw and it's regulars still insist that "conveyancing" in GPLv3 is actually enforceable. You have to be all kinds of useless at law to believe that.

Hmm... Not doing very well, are we? No, you're not. I'm fine though!

And by the way, I have no idea what moderation to expect on this one. Probably funny though. It amused me, at least.