Request ITSC/IDA to vote "No" at ISO, Reject ECMA376 (MS-OOXML)
Sep 2, 2007. Singapore will vote. The issue: Should Microsoft Office OpenXML (also called ECMA 376) be accepted as an ISO Standard?We the undersigned urge the ITSC (IT Standards Committee), IDA and re... continue reading »
"you know that the way forward is to be OPEN, so STOP being SO short-sighted and selling away your freedom to be a slave. It is NOT worth it. Surely you know what happens when uncontrolled power is given to somebody?"
"There's too much technical and legal issues in the format"
"В"
"Never to monopoly"
"support open source and free software... there is no need for microsoft's monopoly"
"Microsoft's tactics: Embrace, extend, extinguish."
"Reject MS-OOXML"
"Please let us use free and open software we like"
"MS never support standards. OOXML is just one of their schemes to undermine ODF."
"Inherently defective by design, as always."
"M$ is evil."
"Let's support ODF and keep proprietary formats from becoming a standard!"
