ISO Approves OOXML

sTeF writes in, with the hope that this is an April Fools joke. Doesn't look like it though. An article up at Intellectual Property Watch claims they have obtained a document (PDF) enumerating the vote after Microsoft's OOXML won ISO standard status.

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Re:Abandon All Hope

[Alsee]

there's no technical reason to reject OOXML

Hahaha. That's a hoot.

Yes a thousand or some such problems have been partially or completely improved during this ridiculously brief superficial joke of a fast-track process. But that is only because there were five to ten thousand or more errors and flaws in this hastily and carelessly slapped together OOXML proposal.

Hell, some of the "fixes" applied in the last vote in fact BROKE the OOXML document in. In this this total joke of a process they forced blind "yes-no" votes on many hundred "fixes" to many hundreds of errors and flaws of this absurdly broken document without permitting any chance to analyze and discuss those proposed "fixes", and some of those "fixes" were contradictory or otherwise themselves broken. It has merely been a quickly first pass at assembling a laundry list of problems, and we have had an absolutely half-assed first pass at fixing the errors of that first pass laundry list.

Claiming that "there's no technical reason to reject OOXML" is a total joke. Either you are astroturfing, or you don't actually know anything about the technical state of OOXML and for some bizarre reason you have total blind faith in the the Microsoft party line of gross misrepresentations and outright lies.

I am a programmer. I have looked at parts of this OOXML document. There are still endless technical problems with it. The normal non-fasttrack ISO process would take years and years struggling to rework this OOXML mess up to par for an ISO standard.

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