Torsten is not saying whom he tried to contact... I don't know if FSFE is coordinating activity on this subject, however I have been contributing to the Groklaw coverage in particular this article for which I translated France's standards body AFNOR response:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007030308154032
see also: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070312083134403
Andrew Updegrove, a US-based lawyer, is following these developments, see: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070312213800...
Bob Sutor of IBM comments frequently on this issue and provided a link to the countries' responses (PDF): http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1528
The official Microsoft line can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/
Sean
Message du 24/04/07 10:26 De : "MJ Ray" mjr@phonecoop.coop A : discussion@fsfeurope.org Copie à : Objet : FSFE ignoring OOXML?
There's just been a call for help on a debian mailing list. In amongst it, it includes the phrase "I did not get a response from the Free Software Foundation Europe." What's happened?
From bounce-debian-project=mjr=phonecoop.coop@lists.debian.org Tue Apr 24 06:41:23 2007 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:41:08 +0200 From: "Torsten Werner" twerner@debian.org Reply-To: mail.twerner@googlemail.com To: debian-project@lists.debian.org Subject: ballot period for ECMA 376 / DIS 29500 (aka OOXML) List-Id: <debian-project.lists.debian.org>
Hi,
I want to remind you that the ballot period about Microsoft/ECMA office document format runs until the beginning of September and national ISO bodies have to vote about the fasttrack process. Microsoft is very active in this process, free software people are not as far as I know, e.g. I did not get a response from the Free Software Foundation Europe. The risk of a successful standardization of OOXML is the marginalization of ODF (ISO 26300) which would make migrations from non-free software to free software more difficult in the long run.
If you are interested in preventing that scenario please take action *now*. Contact your national ISO bodies and tell them your interests. In Germany you can become a member of DIN's working group. I can explain the details if someone is interested. Maybe that is possible in other countries, too.
A good starting point for more information is http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070123071154671 .
Cheers, Torsten
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