[Noooxml] [odf-discuss] URGENT: Support threatened open standards in Europe before Sept 15, 2007

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mer 19 septembre 2007 14:31, Pieter Hintjens a écrit :

> Next week when I'm back from the EPIP conference I'll set-up the
> digitalstandards.org web site and we can work from there.

IMHO for lobbying purposes a purely european lobby would work better,
both to lobby european NBs on OpenXML and to support the commission
initiatives. So digitalstandards.eu instead.

Big & rich closed software/proprietary standards proponents are
overwhelmingly US-based. Creating a grassroots local lobby or a
loosely-federated network of local lobbies would be a way to exploit
this weakness. MS has worked very hard to create the image of MS vs
IBM on OOXML, ie a US multinational fight that does not really concern
other countries (which are then free to cast foolish votes)

I suspect this approach would work real well in China too.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot