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

Jue Sep 6 16:20:18 COT 2007

Yo pregunté al encargado de ICONTEC :
¿Qué sigue?
y la respuesta fue:
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1070

2007/9/5, German Gomez <ggp712006 en gmail.com>:
> 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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