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 »
"Just use OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO-certified, open-source standard"
"Perhaps ooxml is a standard only to Microsoft, not to the rest of the world."
"The facts prove that there is no need to MS-OOXML unless we wish to tie our futures with that of a single fallible corporation"
"A standard is not supposed to be given by an individual or party. A standard should be the result of a common consensus and a knowledge understood and used by all."
"NO NO NO"
"for the free world!"
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"I support MS-OOXML"
"And I hope the authority and government e-services do not *boycott* OSS users(bussiness/personal) and OSS Operating Systems, as it seems now as many government e-services failed/unfriendly with non MS Operating Systems and Softwares (e.g. IRAS, SingPASS e"
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