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ISO Recommends Denying OOXML Appeals

Posted by kdawson on from the as-expected dept.

An anonymous reader passes along word that ISO has responded to the four appeals filed against the approval of OOXML as a standard. To no one's surprise, ISO says that there was nothing wrong with the process. Groklaw's coverage is (as usual) the most comprehensive. Andy Updegrove summarizes ISO's position this way: "1. All judgments made during the course of the process were appropriately made under the applicable Directives. 2. The fact that the BRM voted on all proposed resolutions in some fashion satisfies the requirements of the Directives. 3. The fact that a sufficient percentage of National Bodies (NBs) ultimately voted to approve DIS 29500 ratifies the process and any flaws in that process. 4. Many objections, regardless of their merits, are irrelevant to the appeals process."

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  1. OOXML is a standard. Get over it by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are so many things that are unfair, fraudulent, and ridiculous. OOXML's ratification as an international standard is pretty low on the scale.

    Ask Morgan Tsvangirai about unfair elections.

    1. Re:OOXML is a standard. Get over it by bob_herrick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Another vote against the offtopic mod. Had I points I would be correcting this myself.

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. Re:Damage done to ISO and Commercial Standards. by fictionpuss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    People who have a reason not to listen to you don't need to make up lame excuses.

    For sure, but I'm talking about bringing the argument to the wider populace in order to enact change - not the minority with a vested interest.

    As an ironic aside, the 'M$' meme, according to Google Meme Search, was originally planted by one of the thousands of Microsoft employees who frequent Slashdot in an attempt to equate Microsoft and Money and drive up stock.

  4. Re:Damage done to ISO and Commercial Standards. by fictionpuss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How's that meme working out for you?

    Well, admittedly, since I haven't been offered a development position on the Google Meme Search Team yet.. probably not so well.

    Getting away from the meta-meme though - I really don't think calling Microsoft names, although fun, does anything but raise a cloud of dust over the abuses (alleged) of the ISO process.. and in that sense does benefit M$.

  5. Re:Damage done to ISO and Commercial Standards. by fictionpuss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sockpuppets and meme seeding just seem to be strange background behavior to an already odd culture. ;)

    True, but at the same time we're at a unique point in the history of this experiment. When we're able to 'search memes' and trace the evolution of ideas back to their origins and mutation intersections, then intentional meme-seeding will have all the elegance and schoolyard wit of someone shouting "big bums!" in the middle of the street.

    We'll probably reminisce about it once it's gone.