Aplogies for crossposting...<br> <br> <br> <br> The campaign to stop Microsoft getting the Office format approved by ISO is on. MS's OOXML has been proved to be long, incomplete, patented,and unsuitable as an ISO standard. There is also an existing standard, ODF, as you know.<br> <br> The FFII has been fighting OOXML in Europe and Latin America, and FTISA has beat it in South Africa. Together with these guys, we should be able to kick OOXML out of the rest of Africa. There are ISO votes in Ghana, Nigeria, Cote-d'Ivoire, Botswana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Congo. Microsoft have, I heard, gone to Nairobi in force to try to force the vote there.<br> <br> What we need to do is work with the ISO national boards to understand<br> that OOXML is really broken, and we then need to make sure those<br> boards can't be stuffed with Microsoft puppets, as happened in the US,<br> Italy, Azerbaijan, Romania, and elsewhere. We just want national<br> boards to
vote "NO" until all the technical problems in the format are fixed.<br> <br> The FFII has collected information on this campaign,<br> see www.noooxml.org.<br> <br> But to start with, I'd like to invite you to join this mailing list:<br> https://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/noooxml-africa<br> <br> Thanks,<br><br> - Pieter<br> ph@imatix.com <br> <br><b><i></i></b><br><p> 
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