Torsten is not saying whom he tried to contact... I don't know if FSFE is coordinating activity on this subject, however I have been contributing to the Groklaw coverage in particular this article for which I translated France's standards body AFNOR response:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007030308154032 see also: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070312083134403 Andrew Updegrove, a US-based lawyer, is following these developments, see: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070312213800675 Bob Sutor of IBM comments frequently on this issue and provided a link to the countries' responses (PDF): http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1528 The official Microsoft line can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/ Sean > Message du 24/04/07 10:26 > De : "MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A : [email protected] > Copie à : > Objet : FSFE ignoring OOXML? > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
