India Third to Appeal ISO's OOXML Approval

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "India is now the third country to appeal the ISO's approval of OOXML, with their appeal arriving just before the deadline last night. According to PC World, this makes OOXML the first BRM process under ISO/JTC 1 to be appealed, which leaves us in uncharted territory. Although there was substantial confusion in the comments on yesterday's story, Brazil is really appealing, not merely disapproving, of OOXML, having sent a letter that begins with 'The Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), as a P member of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC34, would like to present, to ISO/IEC/JTC1 and ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC34, this appeal for reconsideration of the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 final result.' Groklaw speculates that this may have something to do with Microsoft hedging their bets by supporting ODF 1.1 in Office 2007, though we probably won't see any more countries appeal now that the deadline has passed."

Comments

Fourth country on the way

[David Gerard]

Andy Updegrove says a fourth country may also have appealed.

Re:Fourth country on the way

[hedwards]

TFA was somewhat vague on how many total appeals there were. It sounded like just 3, then a bit later, they indicated that they wouldn't announce the total list until later.

I was pretty sure that Norway in particular was going due to the abusive manner the discussions were held.

Re:They won't count.

[bigpicture]

The math, the math, India is the No.2 most populous country and Brazil is No.5, with India expected to be No.1 within 15 years, because of China's population control measures. The opinion of a significant market of PC and smart phone users, probably does matter to MS.

Re:If not Important, why is msft so desperate?

[Insanity Defense]

The Open Office/Star Office file format was the basis for ODF but it received fairly extensive reworking in the process of creating ODF.