____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Monday 16 July 2007 19:37 : \____
> <Quote>
> On Friday July 13th, 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.
>
> The following chart makes this trend clear. As you can see, at the
> start of the year, V1's membership consisted of seven organizations,
> six of whom on Friday voted "Disapproval, with comments", and one
> (Microsoft) who voted "Approval, with comments". The membership spurt
> came at the very end, in the last month, when 16 new members joined
> V1. Of these 16 new members, 14 of them voted, "Approval, with
> comments" on Friday.
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/ooxml-fails-to-gain-approval-in-us.html
Front page 18 minutes ago <
http://digg.com/linux_unix/OOXML_AKA_Monopoly_Enabler_Fails_to_Gain_Approval_in_US
>. I was almost the first to comment and if you read Andy U's take on this,
then you'll see that Microsoft is once again using its employees and partners
to vote in its favour (like 2/3 of all those who decide). Isn't democracy a
wonderful thing when everyone is paid to choose for one's wallet rather than
decide based on technical merits?
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