____/ [H]omer on Monday 16 July 2007 20:15 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
>
>> <Quote> On Friday July 13th
>
> Unlucky for some :)
>
>> INCITS V1 met via teleconference for 3 hours but failed to reach a
>> 2/3 consensus necessary to recommend an "Approval, with comments"
>> position on Microsoft "Office Open XML" (OOXML) document
>> specification....
>>
>> An important factor in the V1 vote was the large number of members
>> who joined very late in the process. At the start of the year, V1 had
>> only 7 voting members. But by Friday's meeting V1 had 26 voting
>> members. There was a clear pattern in the voting where the long-time
>> V1 members voted for the "Disapproval, with comments" position as
>> well as "Abstention, with comments" while the newer members voted
>> overwhelmingly "Yes, with comments" and against "Abstention with
>> comments." This is not surprising since the new members were largely
>> Microsoft business partners.
>
> That is clearly a conflict of interest. How can INCITS allow this
> process to be subverted by partisan members? It smacks of corruption.
It is. See this:
How the Game is Played: INCITS V1 Narrowly Votes Down OOXML
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| As significantly, Rob reports that a very dramatic increase in the membership
| of V1 was observed in the months leading up to the vote – most of whom were
| coincidentally were representatives of Microsoft business partners, and the
| great majority of whom voted as a block in favor of advancing the
| specification in a manner that would permit, and against any vote that would
| prevent, final approval as an ISO/IEC standard.
`----
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070715200544734
Also:
Packing The Court At The ISO?
,----[ Quote ]
| ...P member countries ('participating member' countries) sending
| representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of
| their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.
|
| [...]
|
| How can they not see that OOXML (ECMA 376) is unwanted by anyone outside of
| Microsoft? How about it Brian Jones? Are you really so desperate that you
| have to resort to that?
`----
http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/
Watch Rob's comment. I also left a comment in Rob's new blog post to show him
part of the Comes vs Microsoft evidence. Microsoft sees influencing panels as
a strategy. It calls it "War".
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