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  • From: "Andres Ricardo" <andres.castelblanco AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Lista de Correo Grupo Linux Universidad Distrital Soporte" <glud AT listas.udistrital.edu.co>, cc-co AT lists.ibiblio.org, linuxbuc AT linux.com.co
  • Subject: [Cc-co] Fwd: OOXML, Microsoft y la FFII en el New York Times
  • Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:40:20 -0500


Una vez mas queda demostrado que la comunidad unida puede mas que el dinero y los intereses de particulares.

Gracias a todos por colaborar.

El país de España.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/documentos/Microsoft/seran/estandar/internacional/elpeputec/20070904elpepunet_7/Tes

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/technology/04cnd-soft.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1188937075-JcxSIwZWPNujQYg02UKM2A

September 4, 2007
Microsoft Is Rebuffed by Standards Body
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN

Microsoft's bid to extend its dominance in digital documents to the new
field of open-format documents was unexpectedly rebuffed today when a
global technical panel refused to designate its Office Open XML as an
international standard.

The underlying code of an open document format is public, allowing
developers to improve upon it and create new products that use it
without having to pay royalties.

Microsoft is seeking to have its format declared a standard so it can
sell software with open characteristics. Such software is increasingly
being demanded by national and local governments in Belgium, France,
Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil, as well as by the state of
Massachusetts.

Microsoft failed to meet two criteria for a standards designation under
voting rules of the Geneva-based technical bodies, the International
Organization for Standardization, known as the I.S.O., and the
International Electrotechnical Commission.

In five months of electronic balloting that concluded on Sunday, only 51
countries, or 74 percent of the 87 that had participated, supported
Microsoft's bid, said Tom Robertson, Microsoft's general manager for
interoperability and standards, in a statement. Under the group's rules,
Microsoft needed at least 75 percent.

Microsoft also failed to get the required 66 percent support from
countries on an I.S.O./I.E.C . panel called the Joint Technical Committee
1. Instead, Microsoft won 58 percent of the panel's votes, according to
a person close to the procedure who did not want to be identified
because the votes of individual countries had not been made public as of
late today.

One opponent of Microsoft's bid said the software maker's own aggressive
lobbying — carried out in the voting countries and often pressed by
local Microsoft executives — had backfired on the company.

"I think many countries simply resisted what they considered undue
pressure from Microsoft," said Pieter Hintjens, president of the
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a Brussels group that
opposed Microsoft's request. "In Europe our standards processes are
sophisticated and Microsoft simply lobbied too hard."

In its statement, Microsoft pledged to work with opponents to amend its
proposed 2,500-page standard for Office Open XML ahead of a February
meeting in Geneva where the software maker has the chance to confer with
participating countries and win back enough votes to secure victory.

Mr. Hintjens said Microsoft will have a hard time winning over countries
that opposed its standards bid because to do so, Microsoft would be
forced to officially put into the public domain the secret coding for
many of its proprietary document formats that already dominate the
global market, like those in its Office software suite.

"I think they are going to stick to their strategy, which is to try to
simply get companies to turn their 'no' votes into 'yes' votes," he
said. "But I don't think it is going to work."

Saludos,
   Alberto.

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