Petition against OOXML

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

> 
> 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?

I think that both issues are important, but probably all computer people
would petition for the OTA spectrum issue, including Microsoft and FOSS
users.

The OOXML/ISO issue is something that Microsoft users would be less
likely to petition against, and therefore it is more important for FOSS
activists to petition for that, IMHO.

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

I think that Microsoft removed it when they were designing the computer
keyboard....then it became a defacto standard....then ISO standardized
it.  All of this happened right after Microsoft changed the Gregorian
calendar.*

md

*I am kidding folks....it is a joke.