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ISO/IEC Recommendations on Appeals and Latest ODF News - Complete document as text

By Pamela Jones et al.

We have the entire ISO/IEC recommendations document [PDF] as text now, the memo with attachments, including all four of the appeals against OOXML, sent by Alan Bryden, Secretary-General and CEO, ISO, and Aharon Amit, General Secretary and CEO, IEC to the Technical Management Board regarding the disposition of the four appeals. They suggest deep sixing them.

Thank you to everyone for helping. Erwan has pulled it all together for us, a massive job, and he's created an index also, so you can quickly find what you are looking for, all in one place. I'll make this a permanent page, after we finish one other part of the effort, to insert links to materials referenced.

Meanwhile, some rather odd things have been happening in OOXML/ODF land. First, Alex Brown, the convenor of the BRM, has put out a * press release* entitled OOXML will take second place following Microsoft's announcement to support ODF, says Dr Alex Brown. He says this:

According to Dr Brown, OOXML will now represent the "legacy" of MS Office documents that the world has accumulated to date, following Microsoft's announcement that its Office suite will add native support for ODF.

Is he a spokesman for Microsoft now? And why would you need a standard if all it does is represent old proprietary documents from a single vendor? Then we get to the scary part.

Full post as published by Groklaw on July 18, 2008 (boomark / email).