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If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over
Andy Updegrove writes "Public announcements of how Participating members of ISO have voted on OOXML are now rolling in one at a time, and the trend thus far is meaningfully weighted towards 'No with comments.' By my count, there are now four announced Yes votes, with comments, two abstentions, and seven public No with comments votes for OOXML in ISO/IEC JT1. Korea has reportedly voted no as well, and I expect at least Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom to announce 'No with comments' today or tomorrow. There will be more no votes on the roster when the final results are announced in a day or two. But even if the 11 votes I know of now were the only votes, the vote would now have failed — but for the 11 countries that upgraded their status from Observer to Participating member status in the last few weeks. Without those extra 11 'P' countries, it would only require 10 votes to block OOXML from immediate approval. If most or all of those additional 'P' members vote 'yes' as expected, it will confirm suspicions that Microsoft has promoted extra votes in favor of OOXML not only within National Bodies, but within ISO itself."
My goodness, corporations are jockeying for advantage in standards bodies? 1907 called; they want their headlines back.
Microsoft's power is a temporary thing, just like IBM's before it. Quit wasting your time obsessing over it and worry about real social ills.
Just remember - MS is playing "within the rules" as set forth by ISO. Their lobbying isn't against the rules. If you /. and ODF fanbois wanna raise money and get more folks in there to vote no, please, by all means, do so - NOTHING IS STOPPING ANYONE ELSE FROM DOING THE SAME THING TO GARNER VOTES.
When will you retards realize that?!?
you're all just a bunch of linux fags sucking them dicks.
Wow... sounds like you guys are putting a lot of energy into prejudging Microsoft. No wonder you guys get so bitter that MS is fighting back.
Were it not for you guys automatically voting "no" to all things Microsoft, this kind of screwing up the standards bodies wouldn't be necessary. You guys screw with it, so they screw with it, then you screw with it, then they do, etc. Eventually, the standards body becomes meaningless.
The funny thing is, MS doesn't need the standards body to succeed, whereas the FOSSies love using it as their talking point. So really, they hypocrisy of the FOSSies is only hurting themselves.
Beaners don't have a clue about the subtle points of English. Spanish is a gutter language anyway. The "Great Spanish Literature" section of the library would house almost as few books as "Great Arabic Literature".