A real eye-opener is this one: http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/DefectiveByDesign.htm http://ooxmlisdefectivebydesign.blogspot.com/
Note the interesting detail about just how _unified_ the Microsoft Office team is ... Word, Excel and Powerpoint use different text formatting markups plus the shared libraries VML, DrawingML, MathML use another three different text formatting markups ... the whole thing's crying out for some louse to add in a few buffer exploits, and what the whole MS Office 2k7 setup will permit, will make ILOVEYOU, Melissa, and others look tame ... Does New Zealand Standards wish to add their name to _that_? Wesley Parish On Wednesday 29 August 2007 15:19, Zane Gilmore wrote: > The NZ Open Source Society has been fighting this stuff for a while. > > Initially MS tried to patent the formats spoken about in that open letter. > > There are a few good sites detailing the falsity of Microsoft's claims > e.g. http://ooxmlisdefectivebydesign.blogspot.com/ > and > http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/massachusetts_open_document_and_accessibili >ty also seems quite good > > The letter in the Press today seems incredible. > MS claim that OOXML will: > Protect our heritage > Provide choice > Secure our future > Foster innovation > > Utterly unbelievable that they are making claims they know are at the core > of the objections being raised against them. It seems that they think that > by claiming something which is the opposite of the truth they can convince > people that it is true. > > ...trouble is people will believe them, because it is Microsoft saying it. > > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > Sorry, at it again. Searching for anything relevant finds > > http://www.stuff.co.nz/4182703a28.html > > > > Critics urge rejection of Microsoft "open" format > > > > on reuters. Maybe the two are related? > > > > Steve > > > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:06:42 +1200 > > > > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:45:09 +1200 > >> > >> Ross Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I was intrigued to find an open letter from Microsoft addressed "To > >>> all New Zealanders" on page C5 of todays Christchurch Press. > >>> > >>> It urges Standards New Zealand to support the ISO ratification of Open > >>> XML standard. > >> > >> Can anyone send me a scan? I'm nowhere near a paper shop. I feel the > >> need to reply. > >> > >>> Cheers Ross Drummond > >>> > >>> I note from the letter that Microsoft's Christchurch office is one > >>> floor above my ISP. I hope that the Microsofties are taking precautions > >>> against the evil emanations from the Debian boxes on the floor below. > >> > >> ... and your isp'ers are wearing tin hats (: > >> > >> Steve > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > > This has been cleaned & processed by www.rocketspam.co.nz > > _____________________________________________________________________ -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
