Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Swiss Cheese [for OOXML]
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The present spin doctors of Microsoft and ECMA managed to convince Mr.
>| Thomann to reject every serious technical and general concern we had
>| regarding OOMXL by pointing to compatibility reasons. At the end we had a
>| majority _against_ Microsoft but which (giving the unfair rules) results in a
>| Swiss vote _for_ Microsoft. Mr. Thomann was fretting and fuming at the end of
>| the meeting how it can be that successful international companies (we had
>| representatives from IBM, Google, ...) vote against the best interest of
>| their customers and theirself!
>|
>| Yes, this is how the democratic system at SNV / ISO works. After the meeting
>| I could not eat as much as I wanted to puke...
> `----
>
> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-15521/swiss-cheese
>
> Does Microsoft still fail to realise why the world hates it?
Standards bodies were never designed to cope with this kind of
manipulation. Of course, some here will just say that we're seeing
"reds under the bed" or "conspiracies everywhere". Doh.
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