Denmark Becomes Fourth Nation To Protest OOXML

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The rumors of a fourth OOXML complaint turned out to be true. Denmark has become the fourth nation to protest the ISO's acceptance of OOXML, and Groklaw has a translation of their complaint. They now join India, Brazil, and South Africa. There are going to be plenty of questions about deadlines, because people have been given two different deadlines for appeals, and the final DIS of OOXML was late in being distributed and not widely available. In fact, that seems to be one of Denmark's complaints, along with missing XML schemas, contradictory wording, lack of interoperability, and troubles with the maintenance of DIS29500. In other words, we should expect a lot of wrangling over untested rules from here on out, and Microsoft knows how to deal with that."

Overheard in Helsingør [aka Elsinore]...

[Foobar of Borg]

Prince of Denmark: To be or not to be. -- Not to be.

[presses remote button and explosion rips through ISO headquarters in Geneva]

Re:zzz

[UnknowingFool]

Is anybody else tired of reading OOXML articles every other day?

I call BS. You are obviously a MS troll because no one not even MS Office can read OOXML--oh you mean reading articles about OOXML? In that case, I agree with you. We do not welcome the OOXML-reading overlords. :P

Re:ISO 9000

[cp.tar]

Living in one of these nations, I cannot begin to tell you how much it saddens me.

Don't despair yet. We're giving this issue the one thing it cannot stand: Light [google.com].

Are you saying this issue is kind of like a cockroach?

Inflammatory Windows Nuclear Plant Worm

[symbolset]

I have to wonder if you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds: a document that (and we're speculating even here, but I'll give it to you for the moment) can maybe only be opened correctly with Office is equivalent to (for example) certifying a standard for nuclear plant safety that could kill millions of people.

I'm not trying to be inflammatory, but seriously, listen to yourself for a minute.

Oh, FSM preserve us!

You're not referring to one of the Windows ONLY worms that crashed multiple nuclear plants [securityfocus.com] are you? You have to be some anti-Microsoft troll to be bringing that (2003) ancient history up again.

Dude, if you're a Microsoft astroturfer you should make sure you pick up your personal effects on the way out today.

OK.....

[crhylove]

So the hierarchy of countries where there is a real informed segment of the populace or government now starts with Denmark, South Africa, India and Brazil?!?

Refresh my memory, do those countries waterboard people? Do they use rigged machines to count votes? What is the matter with those people?!?

Pinko commies the lot of 'em, allowing true interoperable anti monopoly standards and actually counting votes. They better not be brown, or we'll bomb the shit out of 'em!

Re:Farewell ISO

[Insanity Defense]

The Voice of Microsoft:

There is nothing wrong with your computer.

Do not attempt to adjust its functions.

We are controlling its functioning.

If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume.

If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper.

We can reduce the performance to a crawl, or acclerate it to a functional level.

We will control your data.

We will control the format. For eternity, sit quietly and we will control all that you do.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind of Gate to... The Microsoft Domain Controller.

Re:ISO 9000

[somersault]

The tree of international standards must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of coprorate shills and yacht-owning sell-outs

Re:Farewell ISO

[somersault]

We can reduce the performance to a crawl, or acclerate it to a functional level

I call bullshit, oh Voice of Microsoft!