FSFE, SIUG File Official Objections to Switzerland's Vote on MS-OOXML
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| It all reminds me of when I was a kid, and we'd sometimes settle things in
| the playground with a coin toss. There was occasionally a smart aleck who'd
| yell out as the coin was thrown up into the air, "Heads I win, Tails you
| lose." This ISO process seems like that, in that people are voting against
| MS-OOXML in numbers and raising serious questions, but somehow they get
| ignored or bypassed.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007081708383138
ISOC.nl regrets absence of Netherlands decision on OOXML
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| This surprising result was the outcome of a lenghty discussion on whether or
| not it was fair to those members that had submitted several more
| controversial comments earlier that - without consensus on the compromise
| that had been worked on for months - these comments would not be included.
| This included some fundamental comments such as the mandatory use of ISO date
| codes, exclusive usage of the Gregorian calender (according to ISO 681),
| problems with intellectual property rights, etc). In addition some felt that
| during the process they had agreed on many comments to be ameliorated
| ('censored') in order to come to that same compromise. Without that
| compromise they would like to submit the original versions. The committee
| subsequently failed to get consensus on sending all comments. Therefore it
| will now not share any of its findings with ISO.
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http://isoc.nl/michiel/nodecisiononOOXML.htm
Also Finland:
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/15/findland-new-zealand-ooxml/
Related:
Swiss Cheese [for OOXML]
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| The present spin doctors of Microsoft and ECMA managed to convince Mr.
| Thomann to reject every serious technical and general concern we had
| regarding OOMXL by pointing to compatibility reasons. At the end we had a
| majority _against_ Microsoft but which (giving the unfair rules) results in a
| Swiss vote _for_ Microsoft. Mr. Thomann was fretting and fuming at the end of
| the meeting how it can be that successful international companies (we had
| representatives from IBM, Google, ...) vote against the best interest of
| their customers and theirself!
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| Yes, this is how the democratic system at SNV / ISO works. After the meeting
| I could not eat as much as I wanted to puke...
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-15521/swiss-cheese
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