Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 25/06/07, Pueblo Native <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
> Signing *might* make a difference. Not signing will *definitely not*
> make a
> difference. Sounds like a no brainer to me.
>
And that's the same justification that I've heard for tens of thousands
of internet petitions on almost anything and everything in the world,
from famine in Africa to the price of gas in town and all things in
between. I guess you could say that signing a petition about the amount
of third world debt would make more difference than not signing it, but
I would prefer to do other things that would make more of a difference.
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I fully agree; doing something that makes more difference than signing the
petition makes a lot of sense. In the case of third world debt there are
any
number of things an individual can do that are better than signing a
petition. But in the case of getting a technical standard rejected by a
bunch of bureaucrats, I'm not so sure. I look forward to your suggestions;
I'm in the UK if that helps. The British Standards Institute, which is
documented as handling the UK's response to Microsoft's efforts to make
OOXML a standard does not seem to have any references to its response on
its
web site; or maybe I just need new spectacles ???
I agree.
The Canadian Government actually as a comment site open for comments.
They provide links for details on the proposal. I followed the links
and did some background research. The more I looked, the more I hate
the OOXML specification.
I submitted my concerns to the WWW site in the forum.
Take note, many countries are close to closing their time for comments.
In Canada, it is 2007-July-05.
Link to the Canadian Standards submission site.
https://forums.scc.ca/forums/scc/dispatch.cgi/public/docProfile/100009/d20070501143554/No/t100009.htm
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