ooxml – say no to micrsoft office broken standard
December 7, 2007
als openoffice (ok, neooffice) -user sowie natürlich als frischgebackener amazeean – und als solcher bin ich nicht nur persönlich, sondern auch ganz im sinne meiner beruflichen tätigkeit und unseres unternehmenscredos sog. "open standards"* verpflichtet – , ist es mir ein anliegen, kurz auf diese wichtige aktion hinzudeuten.
"What is OOXML (ECMA-376)?
Via ECMA, Microsoft has submitted documentation for the XML-based file formats used by the company’s "Excel 2007", "PowerPoint 2007" and "Word 2007" products for "fast track" approval as an "international standard".Why is this so controversial?
There is already an international standard for XML-based file formats for office documents, known as the "OpenDocument Format" (ODF; standardized as ISO/IEC 29300). Nobody denies Microsoft’s right to freely decide that the company does not want to support this international standard in their products, and nobody denies that computer users have the freedom to choose office software which supports this standard, such as e.g. OpenOffice, KOffice or Google Docs. However many people feel that Microsoft’s initiative to get their file formats also recognized as an "international standard" is an abuse of the system of international standardization and should in fact be seen as an anti-competitive attack against the company’s competitors, especially against Free Software like OpenOffice." (weiterlesen)
hier gehts zum online-unterschriftenbogen
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Bedeutet in aller Kürze: "development: multi-partisan and open, independent non-profit body; documentation: public specification; use and implementation: open standards are 100% license-free standards."
Nun ist wichtig zu wissen: "OOXML stands for Microsoft Office Open eXtensible Markup Language, which is misleading: it is no open standard.
ODF = OpenDocumentformat is an open standard. It is also an ISO standard."
(Infos und Zitate: http://www.noooxml.org)
