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ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the money-can't-buy-happiness-but-it-can-rent-it dept.

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."

3 of 258 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What you can do? by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, the ISO needs to allocate a defense budget now. Excellent; let's hope they use Excel to crunch the numbers.

  2. Re:What you can do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Breed like rabbits

    I know which of those sounds more fun....

  3. Re:ISO is dead by g2devi · · Score: 4, Funny

    > RIP ISO 2008

    Invalid disk: Corruption found