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OOXML Rumored to be Approved, Announcement Wednesday
dominux writes "Rumors are already circulating that Microsoft's OOXML has been voted in by the standards board. The Open Sourcerer claims to have results of the ballot on dis29500. According to the site Microsoft managed to flip enough countries to make it stick. 75% of the P members who didn't abstain voted for Microsoft (That is 58% of all the P members). 14% of all the P and O members voted to disapprove it, this includes all the new O members that joined just in time to cast their vote. Norway has asked that their vote be suspended due to voting irregularities, but it would take more than that to make a difference to the result. ZDNet is still playing it cautious, noting that an announcement either way is set to be made on Wednesday."
A majority of participants voted for it... Slashdot says we should deny the will of the voters.
It's almost like watching the Democratic primary season in a tiny microcosm.
Yes, gentle reader, it's annual "Slashdot is a useless pile of crap" day.
Kriston
Anyway , does it really matter if OOXML is voted for by ISO? Its just XML for heavens sake, what does it matter? Its not like MS will have copyright on it , they WANT other companies and software to use it. Not everything that comes out of Redmond smells bad.
MS seems to have an implementation, and I don't see being free of patents or the standard being "simple" part of the rules for an ISO standard.