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On the 16th of January the European Commission DG Competition reported that it had issued a statement of objections regarding Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer (IE) to the Windows Operating System product family.  This action builds on a complaint originally submitted by Opera, a European company involved in web browser development. Free Software Foundation Europe welcomes the European Commission’s decision and offers its support in the coming anti-trust investigation.  As stated previously in a letter to the European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, anti-competitive behaviour is unacceptable, whether it occurs as ‘tying’ products with dominant market segments, or in circumventing standards and fair access. "Web browsers are becoming a critical platform for home and business computing," says Shane Coughlan, legal coordinator at FSFE. "The market previously failed to prevent unfair distortion of the desktop environment and we cannot allow such practices to be repeated." "It is important that no business in Europe is allowed to institute any policy of embracing, extending and extinguishing competition either through manipulation of interoperability information or through abuse of a dominant position by unfair tying and bundling of products," says Georg Greve, FSFE President.  "Microsoft is a company that has previously been convicted of market distortion in the Work Group Server market, and we would welcome if the Commission also took up the antitrust complaint initially lodged in early 2006 by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) regarding market abuse in other areas." For FSFE’s previous statement on this issue please see:http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/2007/news-20071221-01 For FSFE’s letter to the European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes please see: http://fsfeurope.org/documents/20071219-opera-antitrust.pdf

Ne, danas nije prvi april i ja vas ne zavlačim. Već sam ranije pomenuo kako je kompanija Misosoft… ovaj, Microsoft najavila podršku za ODF 1.1 u svojoj sledećoj zakrpi za Office paket. OOXML podrška ne postoji ni u najavama. Danas nas dočekuje sledeća izjava čelnika Misosofta… ovaj, Microsofta: "ODF has clearly won. We sell software for a living. The ability to implement ODF in the middle of our ship cycle was just not possible. We couldn’t do that during the release of Office 2007. We’re looking forward and committed to doing more than [ODF-to-OOXML] translators." Kompletan tekst možete naći na: Red Hat Summit panel: Who ‘won’ OOXML battle?

Kao što sam vam ranije napomenuo, kompanija Misosoft… ovaj, Microsoft će sledećom zakrpom za svoj Office paket implementirati podršku za ODF dok OOXML nećemo skoro videti kod njih. Novine u poslednjih nekoliko dana: zbog velikog broja žalbi oko OOXML-a (o tome sam već pisao) implementacija istog će biti odložena neko vreme. Tako rekoše u ISO-u - Four national standards bodies appeal against approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500 U međuvremenu je OASIS, organizacija koja stoji iza ODF-a, aktivirala otvorenu mailing listu na kojoj se već neko vode zanimljive diskusije. Jedna od novina je i ta da je kompanija Misosoft.. ovaj, Microsoft, prošlog petka postala član tehničke komisije OASIS-a za ODF. Zar to nije divno? A sa kojim ciljem? Videćemo.

Mislili ste da je sve gotovo? OOXML prošao i to je to. E pa nije baš tako. Naši drugari i kompanije Misosoft… ovaj, Microsoft bi sada da guraju svoj format umesto PDF-a i to, gle čuda, po ubrzanoj proceduri. Pokazalo se već kako je OOXML zreo da bude standard. Uopšte se nije moralo ispod žita sve završavati. Dakle, čekaju nas zabavna vremena. A kako stvari stoje Office 2007 kompanije Misosoft… ovaj, Microsoft, će novom zakrpom početi da podržava ODF 1.1 dok će podrška za OOXML morati da sačeka Office 14, kako su rekli. Ali zašto? OOXML je zreo standard i spreman je za upotrebu? Ili to možda države i organizacije ipak mnogo više prihvataju ODF pa se ovo čini da se ne ostane bez slatkog dela tržišta. Besmisleno, kako bi to rekao Jaganjac. Štivo za pred spavanje: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080521092930864