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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. ISO press release by eknagy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Press release:
    http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1 070

    eknagy

  2. Re:It ain't over yet... by Macthorpe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually of the 26 latest P-members, 21 voted 'YES', 1 voted 'NO' and 4 abstained.

    You could have said that and people would have believed you, so why lie?

    --
    "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
  3. familiar scenario by IronyChef · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is also how the International Whaling Commission membership has been manipulated toward ending the ban on whaling:

    Since the moratorium was adopted, the support for it has dropped from a 75% majority to a 50-50 split, with many of the countries initially recruited by the anti-whaling side now voting with the pro-whaling block. (A 75% majority is needed to overturn the moratorium.) Anti-whaling campaign groups and some governments claim that the Japanese Fisheries Agency has carried out a programme of "vote-buying" - i.e. offering aid to poorer countries in return for them joining the IWC and supporting Japanese positions on whaling. Specifically, Japan has given US$320 million in overseas aid to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guinea, Morocco, Panama, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St Kitts and Nevis and the Solomon Islands.