Probablement que quelques-uns d'entre vous sont au courant : Microsoft veut faire passer son langage XML de Microsoft Office comme standard ISO. Avec leur fausse conception des standards concentree sur le profit, ils vont encore foutre la merde dans quelque chose de vraiment bien. Parmi les raisons :
Edit 1 : (Version francaise disponible en pdf a cette adresse.)
Je vous invite a signer cette petition : http://www.noooxml.org/petition
Edit 2 : Vous avez jusqu'en fevrier 2008 pour participer.
Merci a ceux qui y participeront, pour aider Internet, tout simplement. En tant que programmeur, j'en ai plus qu'assez de lire des articles qui parlent de la facon dont Microsoft detruit des standards tellement bien construits.
(desole pour les accents, je suis sur mon portable de dev)
Edit 1 : (Version francaise disponible en pdf a cette adresse.)
1. There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, government and citizens;
2. There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification: Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
3. There is information missing from the specification document, for example how to do a autoSpaceLikeWord95 or useWord97LineBreakRules;
4. More than 10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed standard do not validate as XML;
5. There is no guarantee that anybody can write software that fully or partially implements the OOXML specification without being liable to patent lawsuits or patent license fees by Microsoft;
6. This format conflicts with existing ISO standards, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC 10118-3 (cryptographic hash);
7. There is a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids any date before the year 1900: such bugs affect the OOXML specification as well as software applications like Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007.
8. This standard proposal was not created by bringing together the experience and expertise of all interested parties (such as the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), but by Microsoft alone.
2. There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification: Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
3. There is information missing from the specification document, for example how to do a autoSpaceLikeWord95 or useWord97LineBreakRules;
4. More than 10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed standard do not validate as XML;
5. There is no guarantee that anybody can write software that fully or partially implements the OOXML specification without being liable to patent lawsuits or patent license fees by Microsoft;
6. This format conflicts with existing ISO standards, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC 10118-3 (cryptographic hash);
7. There is a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids any date before the year 1900: such bugs affect the OOXML specification as well as software applications like Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007.
8. This standard proposal was not created by bringing together the experience and expertise of all interested parties (such as the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), but by Microsoft alone.
Edit 2 : Vous avez jusqu'en fevrier 2008 pour participer.
Merci a ceux qui y participeront, pour aider Internet, tout simplement. En tant que programmeur, j'en ai plus qu'assez de lire des articles qui parlent de la facon dont Microsoft detruit des standards tellement bien construits.
(desole pour les accents, je suis sur mon portable de dev)
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