[Slugnet] Microsoft Office 2007 Fails OOXML Conformance Tests

[Chris Henry]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Kelvin Quee <kq at kquee.com> wrote:
[snip]
>  "IPOS has not included an exemption for the circumvention of technological
> access control measures applied to the firmware of mobile phones, in
> contrast to the US Copyright Office anti-circumvention rulemaking. Such
> firmware prevents customers from switching networks. IPOS understands that
> the telecommunications companies operating here do not currently apply such
> measures on the mobile phones sold here. However, IPOS would still welcome
> any comments the public may have on this particular issue."
This kind of things prevent competitions. Looks like Singapore telcos
are bracing for more competitions; so I kinda doubt such firmware
approach will be allowed at the end.

>
>  No iPhone joy!
IPhone is set to be release in Australia and Singapore unlocked.  Yay!
Happiness.

Chris