EU's Anti-Trust Investigation of OOXML Continues

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Since January, the EU has been investigating whether Microsoft broke anti-trust laws while advocating OOXML. That investigation continues following its passage as a standard. Meanwhile, the ISO approval of OOXML is being appealed, so Microsoft hasn't won just yet."

Comments

Re:Appeal?

[MORB]

Sarkozy himself intervened on Microsoft's behalf in France. I'm not surprised that this little interventionist piece of shit had a hand in this.

I'm disgusted at the sheer stupidity of all those people who actually bought all his obvious bullshit and voted him in.

ISO credibility badly damaged

[mkcmkc]

Unfortunately, the dry-and-boring, but deeply authoritative ISO we all grew up knowing is nowhere to be seen here. I think they have about a year to repudiate this standard, and hand out appropriate punishment to the instigators. Otherwise, ISO standards will be understood as coming in two flavors: "Classic" ISO (before 2008-04-01) and "New" ISO (after 2008-04-01), the latter being understood to be crap.