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[News] [Rival] New Article on Microsoft Stuffing Ballots (Global Corruptions)

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] New Article on Microsoft Stuffing Ballots (Global Corruptions)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:00:56 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Stuffing it Up - ODF and OOXML Document Format Battle III

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| THE GREAT STUFFING
| 
| The stuffing of national boards with Certified Partners, getting more 
| countries to join the ISO as voting members – a full throttled attack. 
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http://fanaticattack.com/2007/stuffing-it-up-odf-and-ooxml-document-format-battle-iii.html

Funny biz du jour:

Danes set an "open standards" trial

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| There are only two problems with the inclusion of the Vole's OOXML document 
| format in this trial: OOXML is neither open nor a standard. 
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/12/danes-set-open-standards-trial


Related:

Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee

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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on 
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO 
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on 
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777


Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html


Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format

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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above 
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less 
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments) 
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI 
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for 
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.      
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html


Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling 

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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These 
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan, 
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think 
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed 
| through.    
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106

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