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Story: ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'
ISO lost all credibility
ISO allowed the working group to be stacked, just one week before the first vote in September 2007.
Countries with no capacity to make any contribution, simply voted Yes.
Here are some countries from the list of shame (Participating members with full voting rights):
# Azerbaijan
# Cote-d'Ivore
# Jamaica
# Kazakhstan
# Lebanon
# Malta
# Trinidad and Tobago
Even more countries from the Observer members joined at the last moment.
For the full list, see
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/the-last-lap.html
Full Talkback thread
Story: ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'
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If they weren't thugs, we wouldn't hate them J.A. Watson -
Well said LadyRoot David Long -
Lady Root, I sincerely hope you're just troll... Chris Rankin -
Real Standards Tezzer -
ISO lost all credibility samie91 -
You missed the real story with the meeting in Oslo Marbux -
If there's such strong disagreement, OOXML shouldn... SPM -
ISO process has been gamed, why back off? rkhalloran -
If there was ever a place for non-violent protest.... ijames -
Personal attacks? ego.sum.stig -
Personal Attacks? Moley -
Oh, hating Microsoft is so cool... LadyRoot -
O(O)XML and .docx Moley -
Microsoft has right to dictate standards... LadyRoot -
Apple and Google are "tech darlings" for... ijames -
OOXML personal attacks. ator1940 -
Eyes have been opened David Long -
CoolAid required dogStar -
Mostly right, with critical excepti... J.A. Watson -
But OOXML is a non-standard SPM -
Microsoft should not dictate standa... rkhalloran -
Talk about missing the point so com... ego.sum.stig -
ODF is not a standard LadyRoot -
The ISO would disagree dogStar -
ODF is ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Chris Rankin -
de-facto vs. de-jure rkhalloran -
(Full ISO link provided here.) Chris Rankin -
Yes! Microsoft must be stoppe... ijames





