The OOXML Odyssey: Reader Outrage Edition
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| What does it say about Microsoft and its current OOXML push that our
| readers -- essentially, the home field for Microsoft in this contest -- are
| so clearly opposed to the Redmond-sponsored technology?
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http://reddevnews.com/blogs/weblog.aspx?blog=1238#1
The guy whom Microsoft paid to edit Wikipedia and even Brian Jones (the
FUDMeister and Master of Fraud) have both said that OOXML isn't ready, either.
Free software is coming to Windows, hopefully to grab users to Linux, along
with ODF...
Berlin by night...
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| Yes, this is working copy of KWord 2.0 alpha running on KDE 4 under MS
| Windows, compiled during KDE-On-Windows meeting in Berlin. I must say local
| Trolltech's office is great environment for developing.
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2997
More fun KDE stuff here:
Issue 77
23rd September 2007
by Danny Allen
http://commit-digest.org/issues/2007-09-23/
Lots of amazing artwork (Apple quality) is coming to KDE 4.
Related:
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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