An Open Letter to ISO
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| Norway - originally a process decided by unanimity but altered on the fly
| Sweden - voting seats bought and the result thus hijacked
| Switzerland - process rigged in favor of the vendor, the chairman excluded
| the option of voting “reject” or “reject, with comments”
| Portugal - process skewed by blaming on lack of available chairs
| Malaysia - two committees voted unanimously “rejection with comments” and
| mysteriously overturned by the government to “abstain”
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http://blogs.freecode.no/isene/2007/09/07/an-open-letter-to-iso/
I didn't know about Malaysia, but I had to carefully check what India did. Days
after it's "No" decsion (and just before the final vote), Microsoft dumped a
lot of 'charity' onto them.
The press tends to forget and leave behind all this corruption from Microsoft.
3.2 billion people voted NO against OOXML
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18692/3-2-billion-people-voted-no-against-ooxml
Related:
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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