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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.'"
I thought it was the 'Take this chair and throw it' department? What gives?
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Exactly, that's why I always say if you're going to resign on principle, at least make sure to take out those who remain, otherwise what have you achieved? A few poisoned herrings would have done the trick.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Dude, you said the same thing Macthorpe. Can't you keep your sock puppets straight?
Let's see. As of this moment (7:30 AM), this article has 102 posts.
Going through the accounts listed in willyhill's journal, I
count 19 posts by 13 different accounts, most of them in
this thread.
That means that a single person posted 18.6% of all comments
so far on this article alone.
willyhill posted exactly four times on this article, all with the
same account (that I can tell).
Who's 'cluttering up' the place again?
Slashdot is broken when twitter can post some "M$ sux" drivel, have
someone point out he's shilling his own comments with so many accounts,
and then come back with 'dumb fuck' in the same thread - and still be
modded 'interesting'.
But hey, not all of us can have 14 accounts. It takes a special kind
of special to handle that.