Ik kreeg afgelopen week onderstaande mailtje:
Dear René XXXXX,
You signed the OOXML petition, a movement backed now by more than 70.000 supporters worldwide. Our effort to influence the OOXML (Office Open XML) standardization process has been an astonishing success so far. We aim for at least 100.000 signatures in February when the Geneva Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) will convene with the aim to resolve comments.
Microsoft is trying by all means to get its "standard" adopted without substantial changes despite of its thousands of officially reported technical flaws and the pre-existence of ISO 26300:2006 (OpenDocument, ODF) as the most appropriate international standard for the representation of office documents.
By next Tuesday Dec 11 2007 delegates from your National Standards Body NEN who will participate in the BRM have to be announced to ISO. At least Portugal and Ireland will be represented by Microsoft. In many other countries, we know that Microsoft gold partners are proposing
themselves as heads of national delegations. Many of them will prevail if we do not take action.
Will you let Microsoft represent your country at Geneva and decide the future of OOXML?
You can make a difference and call now NEN at +31-152690390 and help us to find out:
a. Who will represent NEN on DIS 29500 at the Ballot
Resolution Meeting in Geneva?
b. When will the decision on delegates be made and if NEN is
aware of the Dec 11 deadline?
c. Does your national delegates for the BRM are independent enough from Microsoft?
d. Does the responsible Committee of NEN for DIS 29500 work on resolution proposals for all the 3500 comments tabled or - if at all - only for the national comments that they submitted?
Please report your findings by replying to this email, we will update this page with the members of each national delegation:
http://www.noooxml.org/brm
More things that you can do to help our effort against this broken standard proposal:
1. Join our mailing list and get in touch with many other
activists:
http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/noooxml-club
2. Become a member of FFII, the worldwide association leading the OOXML campaign:
http://action.ffii.org/member_application
3. Become a member of DIGISTAN, the organization for the promotion of true digital open standards worldwide; please indicate your interests to: members@digistan.org
4. Blog about OOXML which shapes the public debate; blogging has been instrumental to our success in Sweden for example;
5. support our campaign work with financial means:
http://www.noooxml.org/donations
Best regards,
--
Benjamin Henrion
OOXML Campaign leader
Het is inderdaad belangrijk dat de OOXML niet een standaard wordt, want:
1 Er is al een standaard voor documentopslag ISO 26300:2006
2 OOXML is niet open, want het bevat stukken waar patenten op rusten en is dus niet vrij implementeerbaar
3 Het stikt van de fouten
4 Een standaard van 6000 bladzijden is niet fatsoenlijk te implementeren (er bestaat zelf geen implementatie van de standaard op het moment)
Ik heb zelf geen tijd en geen energie om energie in de vraag te steken die in de mail die hierboven is weergegeven, maar het is wel echt belangrijk. Wie voelt zich aangespoken en zet wel de schouders er onder? Nou ja... puntje 4 heb ik toch maar even gedaan;)
Bij voorbaat hartelijk dank!
O, wel snel doen, want dinsdag 11 december is de sluitings datum...
Ondertussen heb ik een velletje besteld met dit ontwerp, dus ik ben benieuwd hoe ze er in het echt uit zien. Nu nog even geduld oefenen totdat de enige echte Ubuntu postzegels bij me op de mat vallen:-)
