[Linux-aus] NZOSS Report to Standards NZ

[Janet Hawtin]

Hi folks,

 The NZOSS recently submitted some documentation to Standards NZ, so just
 incase some arguments in here prove to be useful.

 http://iso-vote.com/technical-issues-in-ooxml.pdf
 http://iso-vote.com/technical-issues-in-ooxml.odt

 The table of contents are,

 > Depends on Unlicensed Microsoft Copyrighted Material
 > Depends on Unlicensed Microsoft Proprietary Technology
 > - Non-­Free Non­-Microsoft Media Formats
 > Unresolvable BRM Resolutions
 > 1900 Date Problems
 > VML Encouraged Rather Than Deprecated for the Web
 > Security Issues
 > - DEVMODE
 > - - Non­Security Printer Setting Issues
 > - MACROBUTTON
 > - - Non­Security MACROBUTTON Issues
 > Excessive and unnecessary use of "application-­defined" areas
 > Accessibility
 > - Right-­to-­Left Table Captions
 > - Multi­level table headings
 > - Toronto Accessibility Review of OOXML
 > Use of Control Language ("must", "may", "should", etc)
 > Feature Parity with specific features of OpenDocument
 > XML Node Naming Conventions
 > - Consistency in naming­ conventions
 > - Consistency in usage of terms
 > - Preference to words rather than abbreviations
 > Microsoft OSP vs GPL licensing
 > Conclusion and Recommendations
 > - Recommendations
 > The Author