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Story: ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance

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ISO or Microsoft ?

"Delegates from 15 national standards bodies unanimously agreed to send the message to Oasis, because they are unhappy with its work maintaining ODF, said Alex Brown, convenor of WG1, a working group within SC 34. These nations include strong ODF supporters such as Brazil, India and South Africa — countries whose national bodies objected to the approval of Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) as a standard, Brown said,"

That's an interesting comment, knowing that
"At this meeting, Brazil was represented by Microsoft. I and several other members of our committee protested against this indication, but we had our protests silenced by the Director of ABNT (Brazilian NB) that said that this decision was not our prerogative and that if Microsoft would pay for their own representative’s trip, their indication was approved." (see http://homembit.com/2008/10/meeting-of-jtc1sc34-in-korea-it-is-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it.html).

It would be interesting to know how many of the 15 national standards bodies were represented by Microsoft employees, but ISO do not publish this information...

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