More on OOXML:
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.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070715200544734
Related:
Packing The Court At The ISO?
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| ...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.
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| 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?
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http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/
OOXML Fails to Gain Approval in US
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| 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.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/ooxml-fails-to-gain-approval-in-us.html
Six questions to national standardisation bodies
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| Application independence?
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| Supporting pre-existing Open Standards?
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| Backward compatibility for all vendors?
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| Proprietary extensions?
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| Dual standards?
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| Legally safe?
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http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions
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