Norwegian Standards Body Members Resign Over OOXML

tsa writes "Ars Technica reports that 13 of the 23 members from the technical committee of the Norwegian standards body, the organization that manages technical standards for the country, have resigned because of the way the OOXML standardization was handled. We've previously discussed Norway's protest and ISO's rejection of other appeals. From the article: 'The standardization process for Microsoft's office format has been plagued with controversy. Critics have challenged the validity of its ISO approval and allege that procedural irregularities and outright misconduct marred the voting process in national standards bodies around the world. Norway has faced particularly close scrutiny because the country reversed its vote against approval despite strong opposition to the format by a majority of the members who participated in the technical committee.'"

Comments

Re:Long list of rejects, all coming to a head.

[Anonymous Coward]

dude, no offense but... do you have any idea whatsoever how psycho you come across replying to yourself this way?

Re:aw, come on, it's not that bad.

[Whiteox]

Mactrope is pretty much on the ball here. He may have some issues, I really don't know, but Microsoft can make as many mistakes as they want, stuff everybody up and generally be the worst player in the field.
The world is so entrenched in the MS paradigm that to them MS=Computers and Computers=MS. That's all he is saying.

Re:aw, come on, it's not that bad.

[Macthorpe]

As mentioned below, I wasn't commenting on the content, I was commenting on whether the 7-personality self-aggrandizing shitfest was particularly necessary in making the point.