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Story: UK standards body taken to court over OOXML

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BSI said:
"IST/41 reached a consensus decision and BSI voted in accordance with the committee’s recommendation."
http://www.bsi-global.com/en/Standards-and-Publications/Newsletters--press/FAQs-for-journalists/OOXML-standardization/OOXML-standardization/

Alain Williams, Chairman of UKUUG, said:
"We are very disappointed that BSI has chosen to take this decision against the advice of its technical committee"
http://www.ukuug.org/ooxml/

However that is strange as fellow BSI member Alex Brown said:
"I find it hard to understand what the UKUUG thinks it's playing at.
The statement from their chairman that BSI went against the advice of its technical committee is false.
What makes this particularly rich is that the UKUUG actually *had* representation on that very technical committee, but withdrew it mid-way through the 29500 project. If they had stayed, then they would have been able to make a material difference to the final UK position. However, rather than taking responsibility for representing their community, they instead abdicated this responsibility and have resorted to untrue and childish press releases from outside the process.
I hope they *do* have a barrister, as somebody there needs to grab some beards and knock heads together.
- Alex."
http://www.adjb.net/comments.php?y=08&m=04&entry=entry080409-221633

Apperantly ukuug has withdrawn from the BSI committee before the committee make it recommendation. And as BSI meetings are confidential in nature it would seems strange that they after they left they can actually contradict the official BSI site on what the committee has recommended.

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