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Norway's Yes-To-OOXML Is Formally Protested
An anonymous reader writes "Norway's yes-to-OOXML may tip the vote in favor of accepting it as an ISO-standard, but the committee chairman just faxed a formal protest to the ISO. 'I am writing to you in my capacity as Chairman (of 13 years standing) of the Norwegian mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34. I wish to inform you of serious irregularities in connection with the Norwegian vote on ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (Office Open XML) and to lodge a formal protest. You will have been notified that Norway voted to approve OOXML in this ballot. This decision does not reflect the view of the vast majority of the Norwegian committee, 80% of which was against changing Norway's vote from No with comments to Yes.'"
Wow, that's interesting. The only other person on Slashdot that cleverly calls OOXML "M$XML" is twitter. Oh, and "Erris". But then we all know what's going on here, don't we?
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
From this point on, I to will describe OOXML as M$XML. No longer will the cry 'Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers' be heard. Instead you will hear 'M$XML, M$XML, M$XML, M$XML, M$XML' Note, I am not Twitter nor am I Erris or Dedazo or even God although I have often claimed to be God. Yours
In either case, here at Microsoft, we feel standards are important. And we have fun, too. Doug Mahugh, Microsoft
You've called me twitter before, too.
Maybe some of the people you think are twitter are, but maybe you're seeing things that aren't there.
Maybe, in fact, there are people who really don't like being screwed by Microsoft.
Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens with fancy erasers; the 'net is just a fancy backyard fence.
The only post to so much as mention OOXML in a sea "Twitter is teh troll" bullshit is labled troll. Gah, this thread is hosed. It's a good thing that there's not much to talk about until Wednesday.
No calls now, I'm
He's a blatant astroturfer and a liar, and in trying to make Microsoft look bad in the most ridiculous ways he reinforces every single negative stereotype about the Open Source movement. I almost think he might be the source of those stereotypes. It's hard to believe somebody really believes all the things he professes to believe.
Aliases I know of:
Twitter
Erris
InTheLoo
GnuToo
Mactrope (NOT MacThorpe, who is an innocent bystander)
Let me get this straight.
Your company has just subverted one of the most valuable standards organisations humanity has ever had. They're gypping computer users for billions of dollars with their monopoly rents, have sent dozens of legitimate businesses to the wall just for daring to compete with them, and you're getting all weepy and whiny because some guy has a few extra blog logins?
And you're being modded up?
Talk about Apple having a reality distortion field...
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."