[colibri] OOXML, Microsoft y la FFII en el New York Times

[German Gomez]

Si señores, afortunadamente tenemos el respaldo de una Comunidad Global que
trabaja por el Sw y la cultura libres...  no los dejemos solos....  debemos
preparar una estrategia para esa segunda ronda que se piensa hacer...




2007/9/5, Jairo Enrique Serrano Castañeda <jairo.serrano en gmail.com>:
>
> Asi es,
>
> afortunadamente el mundo no esta tan loco...
>
> ahora lo que nos queda es como le dije a Andres por el talk...
>
> hacer ruido demostrando el fallo a favor de ODF.
>
> saludos a todos!
>
>  On 9/5/07, Andres Ricardo <andres.castelblanco en gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Una vez mas queda demostrado que la comunidad unida puede mas que el
> > dinero y los intereses de particulares.
> >
> > Gracias a todos por colaborar.
> >
> > El país de España.
> >
> > http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/documentos/Microsoft/seran/estandar/internacional/elpeputec/20070904elpepunet_7/Tes
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/technology/04cnd-soft.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1188937075-JcxSIwZWPNujQYg02UKM2A
> >
> > September 4, 2007
> > Microsoft Is Rebuffed by Standards Body
> > By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN
> >
> > Microsoft's bid to extend its dominance in digital documents to the new
> > field of open-format documents was unexpectedly rebuffed today when a
> > global technical panel refused to designate its Office Open XML as an
> > international standard.
> >
> > The underlying code of an open document format is public, allowing
> > developers to improve upon it and create new products that use it
> > without having to pay royalties.
> >
> > Microsoft is seeking to have its format declared a standard so it can
> > sell software with open characteristics. Such software is increasingly
> > being demanded by national and local governments in Belgium, France,
> > Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil, as well as by the state of
> > Massachusetts.
> >
> > Microsoft failed to meet two criteria for a standards designation under
> > voting rules of the Geneva-based technical bodies, the International
> > Organization for Standardization, known as the I.S.O., and the
> > International Electrotechnical Commission.
> >
> > In five months of electronic balloting that concluded on Sunday, only 51
> > countries, or 74 percent of the 87 that had participated, supported
> > Microsoft's bid, said Tom Robertson, Microsoft's general manager for
> > interoperability and standards, in a statement. Under the group's rules,
> > Microsoft needed at least 75 percent.
> >
> > Microsoft also failed to get the required 66 percent support from
> > countries on an I.S.O./I.E.C . panel called the Joint Technical
> > Committee
> > 1. Instead, Microsoft won 58 percent of the panel's votes, according to
> > a person close to the procedure who did not want to be identified
> > because the votes of individual countries had not been made public as of
> >
> > late today.
> >
> > One opponent of Microsoft's bid said the software maker's own aggressive
> > lobbying — carried out in the voting countries and often pressed by
> > local Microsoft executives — had backfired on the company.
> >
> > "I think many countries simply resisted what they considered undue
> > pressure from Microsoft," said Pieter Hintjens, president of the
> > Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a Brussels group that
> > opposed Microsoft's request. "In Europe our standards processes are
> > sophisticated and Microsoft simply lobbied too hard."
> >
> > In its statement, Microsoft pledged to work with opponents to amend its
> > proposed 2,500-page standard for Office Open XML ahead of a February
> > meeting in Geneva where the software maker has the chance to confer with
> > participating countries and win back enough votes to secure victory.
> >
> > Mr. Hintjens said Microsoft will have a hard time winning over countries
> >
> > that opposed its standards bid because to do so, Microsoft would be
> > forced to officially put into the public domain the secret coding for
> > many of its proprietary document formats that already dominate the
> > global market, like those in its Office software suite.
> >
> > "I think they are going to stick to their strategy, which is to try to
> > simply get companies to turn their 'no' votes into 'yes' votes," he
> > said. "But I don't think it is going to work."
> >
> > Saludos,
> >    Alberto.
> >
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