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Danish Delegate Disputes OOXML Standard Vote
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| By voting to adopt a standard based on Microsoft's OOXML document format, the
| Danish national standards body has approved an unknown text against the
| wishes of the main representatives on its own technical committee, according
| to a technical committee representative from the Danish city of Aarhus. He
| has now made a formal complaint to Dansk Standard about the OOXML vote.
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| The complaint came from Jens Kjellerup, IT manager at the City Executive for
| Children and Young People in Aarhus, who sat on the Dansk Standard technical
| committee that assessed adoption of the Microsoft format as an international
| standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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| [...]
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| He also expressed surprise that in the first vote on OOXML in September,
| Dansk Standard voted "no with comments," backed by a unanimous vote of its
| technical committee, and then changed its vote to a "yes" in March --
| although the committee this time was full of disagreement.
|
| [...]
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| He explained, however, that the consequence of complaints may be that the
| final approval could be delayed.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,146036-pg,1/article.html
There are formal investigations in several places now. Now good for Microsoft.
Related:
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
Recent:
EC probes OOXML standards-setting process
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| A spokesman for the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, told
| The Register that regulators were continuing to scrutinise interoperability
| issues related to Microsoft’s products following complaints from the
| Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) group.
|
| As part of that process, the EC formally contacted a number of national
| standards bodies, including the Norwegian Standards Institute (NSI),
| requesting more details about possible irregularities in the OOXML
| standardisation process.
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| [...]
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| “It must be stressed that it is not the Commission's intention to influence
| the outcome of this process, but the Commission considers it essential to
| ensure that European competition law is not violated in the course of the
| standard setting process,” he said in an email to El Reg.
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| In January the EC began formal anti-trust probes against Microsoft in two
| cases where it was alleged that the multinational firm had abused its strong
| market position. As part of the investigation into the first case, the
| Commission said that it would scrutinise OOXML on the grounds that the
| specification doesn't work with those of competitors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/ooxml_ec_investigation_iso/
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
Euro MP thinks Microsoft should be banned from government contracts
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/10/member-eu-parliament-asks
EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox
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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications,
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian
| MEP Marco Cappato.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
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