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

Vie Sep 7 18:55:47 COT 2007

Ustedes pueden creer que nadie da razón cual es el ente que supervisa al
ICONTEC.....

Si alguien tiene como averiguarlo ... lo agradezco

Offray Vladimir Luna Cardenas <offray.luna en javeriana.edu.co> escribió: 
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>Hola,
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>digitalfredy wrote:
>> Yo pregunté al encargado de ICONTEC :
>> ¿Qué sigue?
>> y la respuesta fue:
>> http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1070
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>Gracias por el enlace. Esto, al menos a mí, me deja la enseñanza de no
>permitir que decisiones amañadas y perjudiciales sigan haciendo campo
>(afortunadamente la comunidad global puede más que el clientelismo y la
>indiferencia locales), pero creo que tenemos que tener un papel más
>proactivo en este tipo de escenarios.
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>Chao,
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>Offray
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>> 
>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>> --
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