[Herts] Say NO to OOXML - more Microsoft patent meandering ;-(

[spock at canopus22.demon.co.uk]

http://www.noooxml.org/petition

http://www.noooxml.org/argu-brief

- The OOXML specification is 6,000 pages, which makes it a real hard task
  to implement for the competition.

- The OOXML specification is protected by multiple patents, where as the
  patent holder Microsoft corporation does not guarantee not to sue or
  confer any other rights for competitors.

[And even worse:]

- This standard proposal conflicts with other ISO standards, such as
  ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times)
  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

Grrrr!!!
-- 
Malc 
http://www.thesmith.org.uk/