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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."

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  1. Cooler heads prevailed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seems like "Because we hate Microsoft" isn't a compelling enough reason for the ISO.

    1. Re:Cooler heads prevailed by The_Quinn · · Score: 1, Troll

      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 :)

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    2. Re:Cooler heads prevailed by HairyNevus · · Score: 0, Troll

      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)?

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  2. Re:MS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    >If Microsoft had adopted it and then went to them with a change to support something specific to MS Office they'd get the cold shoulder.

    Unfortunately, Microsoft disagrees with you, and is supporting ODF instead of OOXML. Please keep up. You are using the old Microsoft marketing tools.

  3. Paid for Fair and Square by MikeV · · Score: 0, Troll

    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?

  4. Re:i agree by FishWithAHammer · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft is a sworn enemy of software freedom.

    No. Microsoft is an enemy of the GPL, as I think pretty much everyone should be (because the GPL is unethical). They have their own OSI-approved licenses that they use for a great deal of code.

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  5. Re:I'm convinced. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Feel free to go back to the earlier slashdot discussions on this, where you will find the detailed technical analysis you crave. Be sure to set your settings to see comments that were moderated to negative infinity, because pointing out flaws in the party line is not politically correct around here.