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Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

I ask the national members of ISO to vote "NO" in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons:

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 missing information 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 a software that fully or partially implements the OOXML specification without being liable to patent damages or patent license fees by Microsoft;
6. This standard proposal conflicts with other 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 to enter any date before the year 1900: such bugs affects the OOXML specification as well as software versions such as Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007.
8. This standard proposal has not been 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.

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son tre giorni che cerco il mio corista per casa !@#@#!@!@!!!
comincio a sospettare l'esistenza di un buco nero...

Senso del vomito.
We'll see...

Banale ricompilazione integrando le patch debian del 18.
(funziona con il kernel .22)

# kvm for sid (latest version)
deb ftp://shammash.homelinux.org/debian kvm/
deb-src ftp://shammash.homelinux.org/debian kvm/

To: Parlamento e Governo della Repubblica Italiana

Basta all'obbligo di acquisto delle licenze d'uso del software con il personal computer!
I cittadini italiani vogliono poter scegliere.
(esempio: se desiderano installare GNU-Linux sui loro personal computer da tavolo o portatili non vogliono dover pagare la licenza di Vista!)

Occorre una legge che contenga le seguenti norme:

1) Nella vendita di personal computer il prezzo dell'hardware deve essere riportato con voce distinta rispetto al prezzo della licenza d'uso del software eventualmente in dotazione.

2) E' consentito all'utente di rinunciare all'acquisto della licenza per il software e pagare solamente il prezzo dell'hardware.

3) Il prezzo indicato per la licenza d'uso del software deve essere realistico.

Il testo completo della proposta, cosi' come le motivazioni e le previsioni degli effetti sono pubblicati in: http://www.nonsiamopirati.org/4bersani.html (autenticita' md5 b4389837d79b118572a4c06944e4e7c5).
(il punto 3 e' stato qui riportato in forma abbreviata, coerente nel senso ma privo dei tecnicismi previsti nella forma integrale della proposta).

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she is susceptible
he is impossible
they have their cross to share
three of a perfect pair...
he has his contradicting views
she has her cyclothymic moods
they make a study in despair
three of a perfect pair...

one, one too many
schizophrenic tendencies
keeps it complicated
keeps it agggravated
and full of this hopelessness
what a perfect mess...


King Crimson