Brazil Appeals OOXML Decision

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Brazil is now appealing the ISO's decision to standardize OOXML, following South Africa's lead. Interestingly, part of the reason this took so long was that Microsoft supporters at the meetings kept asking for delays because they 'weren't prepared' to discuss the issues raised. And the ISO as a whole is moving rather slowly, after that delay in releasing the DIS. But at least the ISO is also rewriting the directives in a special working group so this doesn't happen again. Of course, they'd have to be strict about making sure the directives are followed for it to help."

Comments

Re:ISO = I Sold Out

[TheRaven64]

If ISO is, itself, ISO9000-compliant then they must have procedures in place to ensure that they were at least this incompetent a year ago, from which we can extrapolate the number of bogus important standards.

The speed of law

[HalAtWork]

Microsoft moves faster than the speed of the law.

Re:Yes, but...

[Drantin]

an African or European politician?