On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:19:45 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Latest INCITS Voting Results on OOXML; JTC1 Vote Begins to be Stacked
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>| The government decided to vote together, and to follow NIST (Homeland
>| Security had voted in favor of approval in the previous ballot), so DoD fell
>| in line as well. NIST, you may recall, is an agency of the Department of
>| Commerce (as I reported Steve Ballmer personally called the Secretary of the
>| DOC to urge this result). GS1is a technical association.
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> http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007082413463944
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> Does anybody still doubt the fact that Microsoft is *ABOVE* the law (even
> overseas)?
Aafter all, none of the ODF supporters would stack the deck, right?
Oh, wait.. looks like IBM has it's employees join voting groups in multiple
countries.
http://ooxmlhoaxes.blogspot.com/2007/05/has-ibm-annexed-kenyan-iso-national.html
"A strange development in this is that in the Kenyan response to ISO the
author seems to be an IBM employee from Germany who is also representing
IBM in the German ISO national body (DIN)."
"This is all the more surprising as it seems that the German IBM employees
also activly tried to persuade the German DIN committe to write a negative
response to ISO."
"The question is then how the IBM issues written by IBM germanies DIN
member that were not raised in the German response have seemed to end up in
the Kenyan response."
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