[FOSS_health] Say "NO" to OOXML as an ISO Standard

[Molly Cheah]

*Say "NO" to OOXML as an ISO Standard*

http://www.noooxml.org/petition

Click the above to sign a global online petition to let National Bodies 
of the _member countries of ISO_ 
<http://iso.nocrew.org/iso/en/aboutiso/isomembers/MemberList.MemberSummary?MEMBERCODE=10> 
(_International Organization for Standardization_ <http://www.iso.org/>) 
know that you say *"NO"* to approving OOXML as an ISO Standard.

Visit the _<NO>OOXML site_ <http://www.noooxml.org/> for more 
information, but here is text of the petition:

            /Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard/

            /I ask the national members of ISO to vote "NO" in the
            ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Open OfficeXML or OOXML format) for
            the following reasons:/

                  1. /There is /*/already a standard ISO26300 named Open
                  Document Format (ODF)/*/: a dual standard adds costs,
                  uncertainty and confusion to industry, government and
                  citizens;/
                  2. /There is /*/no provable implementation of the
                  OOXML specification/*/: Microsoft Office 2007 produces
                  a special version of OOXML, not a file format which
                  complies with the OOXML specification;/
                  3. /There is /*/missing information from the
                  specification/*/ document, for example how to do a
                  /*/autoSpaceLikeWord95/*/ or
                  /*/useWord97LineBreakRules/*/;/
                  4. /More than /*/10% of the examples mentioned in the
                  proposed standard do not validate/*/ as XML;/
                  5. /There is /*/no guarantee that anybody can write a
                  software/*/ that fully or partially implements the
                  OOXML specification /*/without being liable to patent
                  damages or patent license fees by Microsoft/*/;/
                  6. /This /*/standard proposal conflicts with other ISO
                  standards/*/, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of
                  dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the
                  Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC
                  10118-3 (cryptographic hash);/
                  7. /There is /*/a bug in the spreadsheet file format
                  which forbids to enter any date before the year
                  1900/*/: such bugs affects the OOXML specification as
                  well as software versions such as Microsoft Excel
                  2000, XP, 2003 or 2007./
                  8. /This /*/standard proposal has not been created by
                  bringing together the experience and expertise of all
                  interested parties/*/ (such as the producers, sellers,
                  buyers, users and regulators), but by Microsoft alone./