Portugal: Votes Yes with Comments on OOXML
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| Commitee presided over by Microsoft decides in it's favor 13-7:
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| It's with much disgust that I see that after an initial membership controlled
| by Microsoft of 7 to 1, it was only possible to add the participation of 12
| more entities, 6 in favor of open standards, and 6 in favor of Microsoft.
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| If from the the first meeting it was clear that there was a favorable support
| for Microsoft of 7 to 1, the voting just an hour ago of YES WITH COMMENTS is
| sadly revealing.
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http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php
>From http://blog.softwarelivre.sapo.pt/2007/07/31/diz-nao-ao-ooxml-13/
Why OOXML will not be an ISO/IEC standard in 2007
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| Even though the JTC1 ballot closes on September 2 on Microsoft’s product
| description for Microsoft Office, namely OOXML or DIS 29500, this will not
| become an ISO/IEC standard in 2007.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1764
Yesterday:
No is no, to OOXML
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| I’ve heard several reports of supporters of OOXML trying to get national
| standards bodies to change their votes from “NO with comments” to “YES with
| comments” because “it’s the same thing.” The logic, which I’ll explain in a
| later post, is that any comments will trigger a ballot resolution meeting, so
| there is no need to be so negative and vote NO.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1762
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