OOXML/DIS 29500: National bodies CAN change their vote to NO
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| Jonathan assured me that national bodies can, indeed, change their votes to
| NO from YES or ABSTAIN.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2096
More on changing your OOXML/DIS 29500 vote
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2099
Related:
Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777
Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html
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
Stuffing it Up - ODF and OOXML Document Format Battle III
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| THE GREAT STUFFING
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| The stuffing of national boards with Certified Partners, getting more
| countries to join the ISO as voting members – a full throttled attack.
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http://fanaticattack.com/2007/stuffing-it-up-odf-and-ooxml-document-format-battle-iii.html
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