I thought I would put together a list of some of my blog entries that touch on the OOXML issue now being considered in the JTC1 Fast Track Procedure. This isn’t everything I’ve ever written, but it includes most of the main points. I’ve also included a few related entries.
- Regarding OOXML and the need for change
- Critical questions for national bodies considering OOXML/DIS 29500
- OOXML: More defects that originally reported
- OOXML IPR problems
- To be clear: IBM is opposed to OOXML/DIS 29500
- CNet: “Free-software lawyers: Don’t trust Microsoft’s Open XML patent pledge”
- Some “OOXML has trouble” items from around the web
- The OOXML BRM: Secrets and statistics
- links for 2008-03-03: Special OOXML BRM Edition
- Dow Jones MarketWatch: EC investigation regarding OOXML
- OOXML is too hard to implement … even for Microsoft
- While you’re waiting, don’t save in OOXML format
- Becta in the UK says “no no” to OOXML
- 2. OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting: Why You Should Worry About All Comments
- OOXML, the past. ODF, the future.
- Microsoft cannot resolve OOXML JTC1 ballot comments
- The ODF vs. OOXML numbers. Hint, OOXML is doing poorly.
- OOXML and Standards Australia – an important correction
- What comes after September 2
- Secrets and anonymous comments
- Why OOXML will not be an ISO/IEC standard in 2007
- No is no, to OOXML
- The OOXML battle – get the information out
- Questions for your national standards body
- New ODF Alliance Newsletter available + info on fighting OOXML
- No discussion topics were cut off by the OOXML Contradiction Period
- Which National Standards Bodies can vote regarding OpenXML/OOXML/DIS 29500?
- “Achieving Openness: a closer look at ODF & OOXML” by Sam Hiser
- In case you were wondering how big 6000 pages is: OpenXML/OOXML/whatever
- Microsoft must love ODF, and that’s fine, but this is not about ODF
- Technical comparison of ODF and OOXML
- Why OOXML is not an open standard according to Microsoft
- Microsoft works to kill open document standards in Florida?
- OOXML contradictions are online
- Astroturf grassroots for OOXML?
- My testimony to the Texas House and Senate regarding the open document format legislation
- Fast track into a brick wall
- Why OOXML will ultimately fail
- Former MA CIO Louis Gutierrez on ODF, Microsoft
- Peaceful existence of one open document standard, ODF
- Must read: “When is a standard not a standard?”
- Avoid the single supplier document taxes
- …, 18, 19, … 20!
- 1, 2, 3, …, 19
- #5. Contradicting Microsoft Office Open XML – The definitive statements (has links to #1 – #4)
- Microsoft, ODF, Open XML, and Wikipedia
- We have proprietary extensions to Microsoft Office Open XML already
- Hiser on the Microsoft Office Open XML license
- IBM votes NO on Open XML in ECMA
- Interoperability vs. intraoperability: your open choice
- ODF standard is FINAL and PUBLISHED as ISO/IEC 26300:2006
- Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?
- The calendar according to Excel, or why Open XML is standardizing mistakes
- Interoperability and substitutability
