>From: Benjamin Henrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: URGENT: OOXML in Malta: meeting tomorrow
>Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 17:51:01 +0200
Dear signatory of the <NO>OOXML petition,
I am urgently looking for people to be active against OOXML in Malta.
There is a meeting tomorrow at MSA (http://www.msa.org.mt/) where Microsoft
will try to defend its standard:
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7172
Microsoft will be present at the meeting with many business partners
companies
that will sit there only to have a vote and support the standard. So it is
important that you go there to represent yourself or your association or
your
company.
Here are what you have to do:
0. Ask what are the voting rules, and what is the voting procedure to have a
voting recommandation; in most countries, it is either 75%Vs25% or 66%Vs33%
to get a recommandation passed;
1. Please attend the meeting if you can; take a pen and paper with you to
take
notes, and a voice recorder;
2. Submit the following 203 technical comments by email to MSA, and ask them
time to debate **all of them**, before deciding on what to vote:
http://www.noooxml.org/package
3. Microsoft will defend a Yes vote with comments, and you have to argue
that
a Yes with comments does not require that those comments will be addressed
at
the Board Resolution Meeting; Explain them that a "NO with comments with
conditional approval if the comments are resolved" is a conditional Yes.
4. Only technical comments matters: focus on answers to all the 203
technical
comments, no discussion around ODF and so on, only OOXML bashing matters;
5. If you have a lack of questions, please print those 5 questions, and ask
for an answer to those in **writing**:
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According to the OOXML specification (ECMA 376),
1. What day of the week corresponds to 1st January 1900?
2. How many working days are there between Monday 4th June 2007 and Saturday
14th July 2007 in countries such as Algeria or Jordan?
3. How many days did the Spanish War last, which started on 2nd May 1808 and
ended on the 30th of October 1813?
4. What is the average deviation of this dataset (5, 10)?
5. How many days were in the month of February 1900?
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Here are the answers you should get:
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1. The specification returns 1, meaning Sunday. In reality, the 1st January
1900 is a Monday.
2. The WORKINGDAYS() function of the specification does not allows the
week-end to be anything else then Saturday and Friday, thus it lacks
cultural adaptability for countries such as Iraq, Algeria, Sudan, Qatar,
Bangladesh, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, United Arab Emirates,
Kuwait where the week-end is not saturday and sunday.
3. This is impossible to calculate, the specification does not support dates
before 1900.
4. The AVEDEV function of the specification returns 252, while correct
average
deviation would be 2.5.
5. Since 1900 is not a leap year, in the reality 28 days. Since the
specification treats 1900 as a leap year, the specification gives 29 days
for
the month of february 1900.
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If you need any help, I am available this evening on IRC irc.freenode.net
#noooxml.
Best regards,
--
Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403
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