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:Boycott Novell has More to the Story.

[Anonymous Coward]

Twitter sockpuppet, mod down.

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:Crazy like a fox.

[Whiteox]

Great link. Somehow I feel used and abused by MS and I reckon lots of us have contributed something towards MS's rise to infamy.

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

[Anonymous Coward]

Macthorpe is a sock puppet for a series of accounts that have the sole purpose to troll slashdot.

Re:Crazy like a fox.

[Anonymous Coward]

> If what you say is true, that twitter
> has all of these sockpuppets

You tell us, you seem to know a lot
about this twitter fella.

> you have censored the comments of
> about eight users

Five of which, according to this compendium,
magically appeared on this thread and replied to you.

What a coincidence!

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.