Petition against OOXML

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> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:43:54 -0400
> From: Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com>

> Bill McGonigle blogged [1]:

> [1]
> http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/06/25/sign-petition-against-ooxml
> 
> [2] http://www.noooxml.org/petition
> 
> The Microsoft document is no standard. It has blocks of property
> descriptions that don't explain what they are nor how they are used.
> There are no implementations of what's documented, likely not even from
> Microsoft. There's no way to independently implement what's described in
> the document without running afoul of licensing and patent-infringement
> issues.
> 
> ISO should do better.

This may be true.  However, I believe it would be a better use of
Linux activists' time and resources to be petitioning the FCC to keep
the OTA TV spectrum in the hands of the people.  How much of an evil
would a closed open document standard really be if we pass up the
opportunity to have nation-wide ubiquitious WiFi?

Now you have my $.02.  (Why isn't there a cent key on the IMB keyboard??)