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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