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ISO Says No To Microsoft's OOXML Standard

Posted by samzenpus on from the try-again-later dept.

qcomp writes "The votes are in and Microsoft has lost for now, reports the FFII's campaign website OOXML. The 2/3 majority needed to proceed with the fast-track standardization has not been achieved. Now the standard will head to the ballot resolution meeting to address the hundreds of technical comments submitted along with the votes." Here is yesterday's speculation as to how the vote would turn out.

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  1. Re:Good by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    would it be a fair assessment to say that a greater proportion of the good guys in Microsoft are in development, and a greater proportion of the bad guys would be in legal, marketing and management?

    Only if you can deem the Auschwitz gas chamber operators as less guilty than the leaders of Nazi Germany in the extermination of minorities. If "only following orders" deems you less culpable than issuing those orders, then sure. You can claim the implementers of bad software are "good guys".

  2. Wonderful! by Per+Wigren · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now let's hope that ISO fixes their flaws with the voting process so that Microsoft have to actually fix all the flaws with the OOXML specification before it can be voted on again. Then make every attempt to game the system an automatic no-vote.

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  3. Re:Pursuit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are an American, I guess, by your immediate recourse to legal action as the solution to every problem? Whoa, whoa, buddy, you are very misunderinformed. As a proud, stright-shootin' American I can tell you that the solution to every problem is preemptive war, legal issues be damned.

    You ain't French, are ya?

    God Bless America!