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Rob Beard wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/04/microsoft_office_standards_petition/ > > Quote from The Register: > > "Microsoft is calling on the Great British public to join its campaign > to get the XML Office format adopted as an international standard. > > The company has launched an online petition > <http://www.microsoft.co.uk/openxml/> encouraging the British Standards > Institute (BSI) to vote for ratification of the Open XML Format, used in > Office 2007, 2003 and XP, as an official ISO standard. The BSI is an ISO > member." > > Thing is, there is already a standard isn't there. The Open Document > Format. Typical Microsoft, if they can't have their way they don't like > it. Surely it would be easier for MS to just incorporate ODF > compatibility into MS Office? > > Rob > > Interesting as the following site http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php has a list of sponsor members, of which Microsoft is one of them. anyway have put a site banner on my own site linking to them, perhaps other members can do the same or perhaps have a link on the lug site, pointing people to wards that. How about a petition section page on the lug site wiki, given there are nearly 200 members, on the list, thats a lot of names, that way if we collect names for issues such as this, then one person writes to for example the BSI or a specific company and just links to the names, or is this not as effective as all of us writing to that company on a specific issue. Paul -- Next meet - thursday 12th April 2007, Paignton Rugby club, 19:00 - 22:30 http://www.openoffice.org http://www.linux.org CHAT SERVICES http://www.serfer.co.uk - http://cgi.serfer.co.uk/ type #serfer then press login. PRFC CHAT ROOM - http://www.zleap.net/cgi-bin/irc.cgi Saturday 21st April 2007 - Devon Cup final - Paignton vs Torquay at Queens Park, Paignton, 3pm kick off. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html