● 05.27.08

●● OOXML and Mono: Not So Different After All

Posted in Africa, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Open XML, Standard at 9:23 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

A fairly intriguing analysis which was posted just 4 days ago delves into the tricks Microsoft might be playing at the moment and also makes a comparison to Mono.

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I’m sure that Microsoft will try to gain some advantage from OOXML, as broken as it is. They could try to reproduce what they managed to do with .NET and CLR by standardizing and opening only a subset of the .Net API , thus letting Novell create a very limited .Net implementation, Mono. Regardless of what the future options could be, the OOXML standardization will prove to be the single most destructive episode of the standardization history.

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Another good analysis of Mono’s goals you will find here.

Please consider contacting your national standards body, asking it to usher the complaint from South Africa. If bodies are not pushed to do so, laziness will defeat true need. As another quick reminder (this time from Linux Journal):

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The deadline for countries to file — listen up standards bodies — is Thursday the 29th.

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Other than South Africa, according to current reports, no country has yet filed an appeal. Prodding might help. █

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