Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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OOXML: Open Letter to YES-voting and ABSTAIN-voting Countries
If there is one or more technical problems, the NB must disapprove the DIS. This is the rationale behind this idea.
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OOXML: Venezuela changed vote from YES to NO
Dear Mr. Kimura, Attached please find a letter from Mrs. María Teresa Saccucci, Standardization Manager of FONDONORMA (Venezuela) through which Venezuela wishes to modify its position on DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats from “Approval with comments” to “Disapproval with comments”.
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OOXML’s BRM: A flow of dirt
Finally Jomar, one of the brazilian delegate that went to OOXML’s BRM in Geneva has started to tell all the dirty little details of what really happened in that meeting and the surreal modus operandi of how 120 people can discuss 1027 issues in 5 days. Have fun in english and portuguese. Oh, and talking…
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OOXML: A global NO so far but still counting
Open Malasia blog has a user friendly post with a map of the voting. See the tables and understand the voting criterias.
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OOXML: Brazil Says NO. Again.
It is now official. Brazilian vote was decided by consensus of the entire technical team, including Microsoft crew’s: OOXML does not deserve to be an international ISO standard. Our first vote, in august, was also NO, due to the same reasons: OOXML is an awful specification. That outcome was expected because we simply followed the…
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Azucar de Caña
Sempre achei que a canção Azucar de Caña dos peruanos Trio Los Chasquis é a melhor companheira da poesia Cantá. Na simplicidade da vida, na alegria do trabalho, no trabalho no campo e na beleza e quanto ambos me sensibilizam.
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Open Source Software inside the iPhone
Can Open Source Software be more ubiquitous than this ? A few days ago I was playing extensively with Apple’s iPhone, investigating each sub-menu and little details. There is a section listing legal stuff and software being used with each license. GPL, LGPL, BSD and other Open Source licensed software rule the iPhone. Some I…
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Microsoft sells Intra-operability as Interoperability
These are my visual examples of the difference between real Open Standards-based Interoperability and Microsoft Intraoperability.
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How Microsoft raped ISO
One of the most critical and discussed points of the whole OOXML subject is how the specification lets you include binary proprietary information. Let me show you how it happens with a piece of an OOXML document, the red-marked text is the problematic part (see for yourself, §6.2.2.14, paper page 4,813, lines 7–13): <v:shape> <o:ink…
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