In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:44:00 +0000
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> Dissing OOXML
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> | Rather remarkably for a 6000-page specification, OOXML is on a fast track,
> | but it has come into collision with over 3000 comments on that specification,
> | many of them negative. The question is, how on earth can the national bodies
> | (NB) who do the prodding, poking and voting, work their way through those
> | comments to pick out the really key ones, and make sure that they get sorted
> | before approval is contemplated?
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> http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=464
Easy. Microsoft populates the review board with half of
their own guys, and push it through the process. ;-)
>
> The whole meeting seems like a farce. Microsoft has
> corrupted the process, but who will sue the company
> for doing this?
The only ones who can sue are those who are directly
affected. See in particular _Lujan v. Defenders of
Wildlife_, 504 U.S. 555, decided in 1992.
Presumably, those bringing suit would have to show that
they are directly affected by the approval of OOXML.
I could see some developers making a fuss over it, though.
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> Related:
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> More Irregularities in the OOXML ISO Process Surface
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> | If you read about what happened there in that article, "OOXML in Norway: The
> | haywire process," your jaw will simply drop. I do think there is something
> | the matter with the ISO process if this is how it works.
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> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070827111019189
Ah, politics. ;-) There is some good news in this article; if Microsoft
is forced to divulge technical specifications for its older formats it
would benefit both the specification and competitors.
But this looks like it's getting rather messy....
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