Esteban Mendieta Jara - Blog

During the International Congress of Society and Electronic Government CONSEGI developed in Brazil from 27 to 29 August 2008, the countries of Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Cuba, Paraguay and Ecuador signed a document protesting the ISO standard (trout) from OOXML .

As you may recall in recent months the approval was made ​​standard OOXML , this process was marked in much controversy , because some countries may check the manipulation of the vote by Micro $ oft, now the countries that voted NO on that occasion have decided to raise a protest against the approval of the standard.

Is the holder of the note published in the Diario El Pais in Spain.

This gives us the reason, once again, why use Free Software because we can not be at the expense of a company change the systems and support we run out, or we are forced to have to buy a new computer, think about whether this happen with a system that manages a country's securities and the company that owns the system decides not to give more support or simply does not give us the keys or access to the system, there is a clear example as happened in Venezuela .

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Before you make the official announcement iso, both Microsoft and ECMA issued its press release announcing the victory of OOXML over reason.

So unofficial Open Malasya Blog , the following list of countries that voted apparently not OOXML.

• Canada
• China
• Ecuador
• India
• Iran
• New Zealand
• South Africa
• Brazil
• Cuba

According to the site of openxml.info in several countries there are several cases of irregularities. One of the most notable is the case in Norway changed their vote from No to Yes even though 80% of the committee was against this decision. The reactions to this were immediate and the director of the technical committee has made ​​a public protest on the subject.

I think this story is far from over. People from the community of free software in Latin America, we must seek the implementation of ODF as a national standard before spreading too fast OOXML.

Before ending this post I want to thank Microsoft for giving me the opportunity to meet people so intelligent and capable as I have known in this process. Today I have friends all over the world who think in a way similar to mine and together we can do great things. This was already demonstrated in September when we beat Microsoft and OOXML. This time we lost the battle, but we managed to form a community pro global open standards. Thanks Microsoft for this gift.

And as this video says " Microsoft we love "

Ecuador voted "no" to the standard ECMA-375 Standard ISO 29500 as proposed by Micrososft (r) after the committee report that was created to address this issue did not consenso.La international community and area specialists drafted a document of 148 technical comments that refer to:

• "Induction of bugs those who use the standard"
• "Introduction deliberate error in the handling of dates (eg can not be represented on August 10, 1809, being prior to 1900)
• "Contradiction with other ISO standards"
• "Dependence of Microsoft Windows (r) and Applications Microsft (r) in order to function"
• "No use of existing ISO standards and use proprietary formats Microsoft"
• and others.

Despite these questions Micrososft (r) has maintained a strong defense to his standard on committees involved in this process has been compromised with incidents in Sweden (who changed his vote from "yes" to "abstain", by assuming pressure Micrososft (r)), Portugal (chaired by Micrososft (r) and not allowed to enter your IBM representative citing lack of space in the room); and Uruguay (which has challenged the ballot).

Taken from: RVT Radio