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ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals
snydeq writes "ISO and IEC gave OOXML the greenlight after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard. According to an ISO press statement, appeals by the national bodies of Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela did not garner support from two-thirds of the members of the ISO Technical Management Board and IEC Standardization Management Board, which is required by ISO/IEC rules to keep the appeals process alive."
Has Netcraft confirmed this?
So, the ISO needs to allocate a defense budget now. Excellent; let's hope they use Excel to crunch the numbers.
What can you do? Pick one: soap box, ballot box, natalie portman's box, ammo box. Note that the first 2 have been ineffective, and the 3rd is overrated.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
AC, your detailed technical analysis has convinced me to never trust Groklaws again. Thank you for such an insightful and objective assertion of opinion as, "unlike most readers, whenever the criticism was of a technical nature, I went to the spec itself and checked. ... those sites often lied about objective matters of fact." Such excellence is par for the course with AC comments. How can I ever thank you for saving me from "ignorance"?
Yes, good idea! I'm going to start my OWN standards organization. With hookers!...And blackjack!...In fact, forget the standards!
I know which of those sounds more fun....
Is that a carrot in your pocket, or...
"Not an actor, but he plays one on TV."
> RIP ISO 2008
Invalid disk: Corruption found
because he said so
The sad thing is, all those people who "need nothing more than a glorified WordPad" don't even need that either. All they actually need is WordPad, or maybe even NotePad.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
That's what she said!
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