Roy Schestowitz wrote:
[...]
> | Format (ODF), already an ISO standard, and he believes competition is
> | weakened by a competiting standards....
> `----

????!!!!

Google yields:

"Aside from his position as lord mayor, he is also political cabaret
artist."

Well, now you can be assured that Germany will, if required, vote (once
again) in favor of OOXML.

"Germany votes in favour of the adoption of Office Open XML as an
International Standard – but with numerous recommendations for
improvements

(2007-08-22) In international standardization, so-called "mirror
committees" are set up to form the national standpoint on current
standardization projects: in this case on the initiative of Ecma
International for the fast-track adoption of the standard ECMA-376
"Office Open XML (OOXML)" as an International Standard, ISO/IEC 29500.
All 103 full members of the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) are entitled to vote on this proposal until 2
September 2007 – with one vote per country.

The 6,000 page ECMA-376 standard, published in December 2006, documents
an XML file format for office applications originally developed by
Microsoft. This is the second such format proposed for standardization
at the international level: The Open Document Format developed by the
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
(OASIS) is the subject of ISO/IEC 26300 "Information technology - Open
Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) ", already
published at the end of last year.

After months of intensive deliberation on the OOXML specification, the
responsible German committee in the Standards Committee on Information
Technology and Selected IT Applications (NIA) at DIN met on 21 August
2007 in Berlin. Representatives of software providers, application
developers, research institutes, federal ministries and government
agencies discussed the various viewpoints which had been submitted,
finally deciding to approve the draft version of ISO/IEC 29500, albeit
with extensive comments containing proposed technical improvements to
the ECMA standard. The German comments – which take up dozens of pages -
will be submitted to ISO.

Queries on this subject should be addressed to:
Mr. Jan Dittberner
Standards Committee on Information Technology and selected IT
Applications
Tel. +49 30 2601 2017"

http://www.din.de/cmd;jsessionid=655...&languageid=en

regards,
alexander.

--
"12/21/2007 ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR DEFENDANT...
01/22/2008 ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR DEFENDANT...
02/19/2008 ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR DEFENDAT(sic)...
02/26/2008 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Laura Taylor Swain from
Daniel B. Ravicher...
02/27/2008 ORDER that Defendants Verizon Communications, Inc. has
until March 14, 2008..."

-- 1:07-cv-11070-LTS aka Never Beginning "GPL Enforcement" case

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Munich's migration to GNU/Linux was successful and a lot of eyes use
> it as a case study.

The migration isn't close to being done, has taken 5 years (since the
announcement) just to get a few thousand machines switched over, they still
run Windows servers and clients for many apps, they still use lots of
proprietary systems, the initial cost projections were exorbitant (more than
$3000 per system) http://software.silicon.com/os/0,390...9162746,00.htm
and exceeded the cost of upgrading their MS infrastructure.

It's a fact that the Munich migration is to date a huge failure by any
rational measure or consideration.

This migration was undertaken for one reason only: German nationalism. They
wanted to try and wean this important, visible city government off American
proprietary code. At best it may pay off financially - but not in any big
way - over several upgrade cycles (20+ years, considering they stayed with
NT for 8 years).



> Therefore, the Munchkins would lie through their
> teeth telling a bogus story.

You and your ilk are the liars.

And since you claim the migration "was successful" (past tense), why are 4
out of 4 of your links about the migration from 2006? Where are the current
links showing how successful the migration is going, and telling us about
all the happy users, the smooth transition to OpenOffice, the productivity
gains, the cost savings, the infamous Linux stability (see my recent '62
pages of Ubuntu crapware freezing' thread)? Well?

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:29:10 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:


> They'll carry on spreading the Big Lie. It's best just not to feed them because
> this is an unmoderated forum. They can't post lies which cannot be removed.

Yea just like you do Roy Schestowitz.
Seed that google!



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Moshe is flatfish (aka: Gary Stewart)

http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2008/...arb-troll.html
http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2007/...ish-troll.html

bab****.latreen espoused:
> Moshe is flatfish (aka: Gary Stewart)
>
> http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2008/...arb-troll.html
> http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2007/...ish-troll.html

Whoever you be, should you be able to add something like [GS] in the
subject line to these follow-ups, I'd be very very grateful.

Ta,

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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:15:43 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:

> bab****.latreen espoused:
>> Moshe is flatfish (aka: Gary Stewart)
>>
>> http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2008/...arb-troll.html
>> http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2007/...ish-troll.html
>
> Whoever you be, should you be able to add something like [GS] in the
> subject line to these follow-ups, I'd be very very grateful.
>
> Ta,

Hahahaha!
You clowns are nuking your own group and don't even realize it.

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Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
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