● 11.28.07

●● Quick Mention: The Programmer’s Advantage in ODF, OOXML Coverage from Hungary

Posted in Europe, Formats, Open XML, OpenDocument, Standard at 4:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Here is a nice new article that shows the nature of the monoculture called OOXML.

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How well is ODF and OOXML supported in different languages?

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I started off by choosing six common languages used by application and Web developers, then I went and looked for what libraries are available for each document format:Language ODFOOXMLPythonYes NoPerlYes NoRubyYes NoPHPYesStartedJavaYesStartedMicrosoft C#YesYes

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This is hardly surprising and IBM ought to be very careful with that C#/Mono trap.

A few days ago, memories from Hungary came back to light in Groklaw.

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Do you remember the August meeting of the Technical Committee in Hungary over whether to approve MS OOXML as a standard? It was one of the places where the scandal-rocked ISO process bubbled up and over into headlines. In that country, the issue was whether proper procedures were followed in the voting. There is now a report and transcript of the meeting [PDF] in Hungarian, of course, 27 pages long, which is now made public.

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We mentioned OOXML in Hungary several times before [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. This was one among many other disturbing scenarios which showed the truly fradulent nature of Microsoft and its ability to manipulate people/governments.

It is safe to predict that the aggressive and unethical behavior will culminate early next year, but it has already begun (and been spotted) in Germany and Portugal. █

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