Shenanigans Alleged on Road to OOXML Vote
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| The events leading up to the ISO's decision on OOXML can best be described as
| strange.
|
| Take the case of KT 182, the Polish technical committee responsible for the
| OOXML standardization process, as described on Groklaw: Chairperson Elzbieta
| Andrukiewicz was instructed that KT 182 should abstain from voting if a
| consensus was not achieved. Well, it wasn't, and she said the members who
| were absent could vote by e-mail E-Mail Marketing Software - Free Trial.
| Click Here. -- but if they didn't vote, she'd take their non-response as a
| yes.
|
| Later, when presenting the results of the ballot resolution, she showed a
| slide that claimed 98 percent of the OOXML issues had been resolved during
| the KT 182 meeting.
|
| When reminded this wasn't true, and told that the author of the PowerPoint
| file was Paul Pesch, platform strategy manager at Microsoft Netherlands, she
| threatened to sue anyone who repeated the assertion that Pesch was the
| author.
|
| That slide had been shown at another meeting, and one of the Brazilian
| delegates had complained about it.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62400.html
How the Philippines Changed Its OOXML Vote from No to Yes
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| The Manila Bulletin Online tells us how the Philippines changed its No vote
| on OOXML to Yes. Once again there is an indication that when no consensus was
| reached, the chairman decided to make it Yes. That blatantly happened in
| Norway, and I can't help but want more details about the Philippines.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080402003610230
Don't forget. There is a formal large-scale investigation, so nothing is over
and sealed. Microsoft tries to make journalists forget this.
Recent:
Norway asks to suspend its 'Yes' vote on OOXML
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| Some members of the Norwegian committee that participated in the
| International Organization for Standardization's Office Open XML vote are
| calling on Norway's Ministry of Trade and Industry to suspend the
| country's "yes" vote pending an investigation, according to a letter to the
| ISO from the Norwegian committee's chairman.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=124372770&rid=-50
Bill Gates takes the phone to lobby Mexico
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| Rumors are running that he also lobbied Denmark, where it is well known that
| he is a friend of the Prime Minister.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-50275/bill-gates-takes-the-phone-to-lobby-mexico
Poland confirms its approval for OOXML in ISO
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| * 24 members voted to approve (7 of them without even knowing that, since
| no vote was counted as a vote to approve),
| * 13 members voted against approving the standard (a ‘NO’ vote),
| * 4 remaining members decided that Poland should abstain from voting.
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/poland-confirms-its-approval-for-ooxml-in-iso/
Poland: You don't vote, so you vote in favour of the standard
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-50291/poland:you-don-t-vote-so-you-vote-in-favour-of-the-standard
Related:
EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push
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| But with Steve Ballmer taking over as CEO, there was supposed to be a kinder,
| gentler Microsoft - one that would play nicely with its competitors. When
| antitrust regulators in turn challenged this new Microsoft, it issued not
| challenges to fight to the end to prove that it had done nothing illegal, but
| statements promising to "cooperate fully."
|
| But at the same time, Microsoft is still a tough competitor. As Microsoft's
| Director of Corporate Standards Jason Matusow famously warned at his blog
| last year:
|
| Make no mistake; all parties are looking at the full picture to find
| strategies that will result in the outcome they desire. Provided - of
| course - that they do so within the context of the rules that apply to
| the process, this is exactly what one should expect to happen. It is
| going to be a very interesting next few months.
|
| Indeed, the months that followed proved to be interesting indeed. Microsoft
| said that some of its employees became over zealous, most flagrantly in
| Sweden, where marketing assists were promised to several business partners as
| incentives to join the national standards committee and vote for OOXM.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776
EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push
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| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter
| Quinn was by no means unique.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252
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
OOXML News From Denmark
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| It appears that pressure was put on partners there as well, although
| Microsoft denies that was the intent.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070831002558681
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| Re: In Denmark, Microsoft has 2 out of 4 votes
|
| InzpektorInzpektor 18 Feb 2008, 15:20 BST
|
| The Danish delegation for the BRM will consist of:
|
| * IBM
| * Dansk Standard (the national standards body)
| * Microsoft - Themselves!
| * Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Ciber A/S
|
| So, I guess that means that the Danish votes are a tie. (Ofcourse with the
| national standards body being the joker here :-) )
|
| Reference:
| http://www.ds.dk/3537 (In Danish)
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41947/microsoft-s-wikipedia-editor-goes-to-the-brm-to-represent-australia
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