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● 07.23.07

●● You Can Still End the Desktop Monopoly. Fight the ‘Monopoly Enabler’ (OOXML).

Posted in ECMA, Formats, ISO, Linspire, Microsoft, Novell, Open XML, OpenDocument, Quote, Turbolinux, Xandros at 12:16 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Here is a fragment from a powerful short essay. It comes from Pieter Hintjens, President of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII).

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This fight is over the future of Microsoft’s desktop monopoly. If OOXML gets passed as an ISO standard, Microsoft will be rolling out more ‘standards’ and end up with a stack of ISO standards that only it can implement. It is already spinning “open standard” to mean “closed format heavily protected by secrets and patents”. Free software won’t be able to implement OOXML, and users will be locked-in to Microsoft’s proprietary world for decades. It’s a clever abuse of the standards process.

It is worth mentioning that there are open invitations to OOXML elimination discussions. The NoOOXML CLub mailing list is getting the word around the Web at this very moment. Please help us combat Microsoft’s hijack attempts, which are well coordinated. The deals with Novell, Linspire, TurboLinux, and Xandros are part of the Big Plan.

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Europe may have begun investigating the rotten stories, but without your help, their intervention could be insufficient.

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