Romania does it again
Just read this on Lucian Savluc’s blog:
I just found from one of the ROSI members (Laurentiu Buzdugan), that Romanian Standard Association (ASRO) was one of the few countries representatives who approved without any comments the Microsoft OOXML proposal! (For those who are not familiar with it, there is a quite straight forward explanation on Wikipedia about OOXML and ODF.) Can you imagine? No comments or nothing, they just say “OK, we totally agree with Office Open XML”!
This is nothing short of disgusting… In a world where countries straight out refuse the format because, well, it’s REDUNDANT to say the least, Romania just accepts it without any comments. I don’t even think they studied what it is or anything, they saw Microsoft written on it and they accepted. What do you mean, why!? Because it’s Microsoft, stupid!
Well, I’m pretty sure nothing can be done for Romania to unswallow MS’s (no bad words today) but FYI here’s the banner linking to the 6 unanswered questions on MS OOXML asked by the Free Software Foundation:
Read and judge for yourself.
4 Responses to “Romania does it again”
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Kit on September 10th, 2007
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format.
Comprende? :)
Janos on September 10th, 2007
Who’s got a new SUV?
RS on September 11th, 2007
Too funny! But in all seriousness, this type of stuff has got to stop and I’m happy to hear you guys speaking out on it. The 1900 leap year bug => standard thing is just too comical. Why no comment? They could have at least said something about that!
We can’t let the monkeys run the ship…I don’t my code looking like theirs!
Kit on September 18th, 2007
Wait, there’s more: “we saw over the past few weeks some strange and rather irregular national positions coming to light. My own favorites were Cuba voting “yes” to the fast-tracking of OOXML, even though Microsoft is prohibited by the US Government from selling any software on the island that might even be able to read and write the new format, and Azerbaijan’s “yes” vote, even though OOXML as defined isn’t able to express a Web URL address in Azeri, their official language.”