Story: OOXML approval system open to abuse

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OOXML Approval System has already been seriously abused

"if it is not, then a chance to make a key part of our IT infrastructure truly open may have been missed."

This is what so many cannot believe either on the evidence before us or on the basis of M$ track record.

The 'stuffing of ballot boxes' by means of interfering with the makeup of the committees, coercion and vote rigging that is going on at the moment is nothing short of horrendous and, to us lesser mortals, thoroughly corrupt.

Wiser people than me consider that if OOXML goes through, then the problem of future accessibility to records will be exacerbated and expensive, being locked into proprietry software subject to arbitrary change from time to time, quite the opposite of what is intended.

MS are only fighting to maintain and reinforce their monoploy.

Of course, the haste, the improper scrutiny, and disregard of serious technical comment are shameful. It is clear that OOXML is not, at this time, fit to be a standard; and nor likely ever will be.

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