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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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Microsoft sells Intra-operability as Interoperability

    These are my visual examples of the difference between real Open Standards-based Interoperability and Microsoft Intraoperability.

  • 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…

  • Better sleep leads to a better You

    The title was the phrase written in a CD left in a Crown Plaza Hotel room I stood this days. Its excellent content is a relaxation program with very soft music to listen and do after you go to bed and before you fall asleep, with the aim to make you sleep better. I found…

  • The OOXML Date Bug

    This is an example of an old Excel bug that was transported to OOXML for “compatibility” reasons. In new OOXML, there are several non-standard ways to represent dates. The main one is this, that requires that 1900 is a leap year contradicting the Gregorian calendar, used for centuries now. More info on this in a…

  • How I Became Vegetarian

    Around early 1995 I was thinking about to stop eating meat. I thought that would do good for my body and my mind. Then I was waiting in a room, randomly took a book and randomly open it in the part that finally defined my decision. Later a saw many people becoming vegetarian because of…

  • OOXML in Numbers

    This is a numerical photography of what is the Microsoft Office Open XML wannabe specification: 6063 pages written in 12 months Only 6 months of analysis pointed 3500 issues that span from intellectual property, to standard date & time representation, to malformed XML definitions, to binary proprietary bits 3500 issues where summarized in “only” 1027…