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."

Comments

Re:Cooler heads prevailed

[The_Quinn]

I guess most of the countries' representatives ond't effectively govern as well as you could. Too bad you can't rule the world and bring us the Utopia in your head :)

Paid for Fair and Square

[MikeV]

Is anyone surprised? Microsoft paid for that ISO fair and square. Bribed the right people, paid for the right votes. They got their money's worth. This proves that the world's way works. Corruption to some is just business to others.

But then, Slashdot is now a pro-Microsoft camp - so why all the belly-aching? I see so much praise heaped up on Microsoft here nowadays that I wonder if they'd forgotten OSS and *nix which was their original focus and forgotten the damage Microsoft has perpetuated on the computing industry as a whole. After all, it's not FAT32.com - it's Slashdot.com - but then who here even knows what that stands for anymore?

Re:Cooler heads prevailed

[HairyNevus]

Yes, but it's a good enough reason to mod people down on /. No news there, though.
Anyone else think that this whole "ISO OOXML corruption" story is just being exaggerated and carried on by the MS-hate machines out there (slashdot being one)?