There's just been a call for help on a debian mailing list. In amongst it, it includes the phrase "I did not get a response from the Free Software Foundation Europe." What's happened?
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 24 06:41:23 2007 > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:41:08 +0200 > From: "Torsten Werner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ballot period for ECMA 376 / DIS 29500 (aka OOXML) > List-Id: <debian-project.lists.debian.org> > > Hi, > > > I want to remind you that the ballot period about Microsoft/ECMA > office document format runs until the beginning of September and > national ISO bodies have to vote about the fasttrack process. > Microsoft is very active in this process, free software people are not > as far as I know, e.g. I did not get a response from the Free Software > Foundation Europe. The risk of a successful standardization of OOXML > is the marginalization of ODF (ISO 26300) which would make migrations > from non-free software to free software more difficult in the long > run. > > If you are interested in preventing that scenario please take action > *now*. Contact your national ISO bodies and tell them your interests. > In Germany you can become a member of DIN's working group. I can > explain the details if someone is interested. Maybe that is possible > in other countries, too. > > A good starting point for more information is > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070123071154671 . > > > Cheers, > Torsten > > -- > blog: http://twerner.blogspot.com/ > homepage: http://www.twerner42.de/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
