[odf-discuss] TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue

[Russell Ossendryver]

 KEI Statement on OOXML vote by ISO

This is the Statement of KEI Director James Love on the ISO's vote on OOXML
as a standard for document formats:

7:30 Am, March 31, 2008

"It appears as if OOXML will be approved by the ISO.  If so, we are
disappointed. Microsoft's control over document formats has destroyed
competition on the desktop, and the fight over OOXL is really a fight over
the future of competition and innovation.

At this point, few software programs can implement the OOXML standard, and
it is likely that Microsoft will use this standard as a weapon against its
competitors, by introducing various obscure elements of the standard into MS
Word and PowerPoint documents, so that only their products can be trusted.
They have this been doing for decades already.

*The TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) will meet with European and US
trade officials next week* and likely recommend procurement policies that
would look at the practical implementation of document formats.
Specifically, they will ask that procurement be limited to software programs
that support multiple effective implementations for word processing,
spreadsheets and presentation graphics for each of the three leading
operating systems  for consumers.  This is a test that OOXML does not meet."

http://www.keionline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=172&Itemid=1
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