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[News] [Rival] Protests in Norway Against Microsoft's "Scandalous Behavior"

Computer experts stage street protest in Oslo against Microsoft document format
as standard

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| OSLO, Norway: Roughly 60 data experts staged a rare and noisy street 
| demonstration in downtown Oslo on Wednesday to protest the adoption of 
| Microsoft Corp.'s document format as an international standard and against 
| Norway voting for the move.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| He claimed the committee ignored the advice of the vast majority of the 
| Nordic nation's software experts, was pressured by Microsoft and 
| displayed "scandalous behavior."  
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/09/business/EU-TEC-Norway-Digital-Demonstration.php

Photos: http://flickr.com/groups/750232@N22/pool/

OOXML triggers demonstration in Norway: "Let's throw OOXML out of ISO"

http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-52412/ooxml-triggers-demonstration-in-norway:let-s-throw-ooxml-out-of-iso


Recent:

Demonstration outside ISO conference

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| Steve Pepper, the former Chairman of the Norwegian committee responsible for 
| deciding the Norwegian vote on OOXML, is calling for a demonstration to take 
| place outside the building where SC34, the ISO committee that has been landed 
| with OOXML, is holding its spring plenary.   
| 
| The demonstration will take place outside Håndverkeren, Rosenkrantzgate 7, 
| Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday April 9 at 12.00. Among the slogans are: 
| 
| * No to ISO approval of OOXML!
| * Defend the integrity of ISO!
| * Microsoft: Support ODF!
| * Ecma: Withdraw OOXML!
| * Norway must say no to OOXML!
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http://blogs.freecode.no/isene/2008/04/07/demonstration-outside-iso-conference/


2008-04 OOXML irregularities in Norway

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| [...]
| 
|     * 2007: committee stuffing: the NS/K 185 committee grew from 6-7 persons 
|     to 30 persons due to the OOXML case... 
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http://wiki.efn.no/2008-04_OOXML_irregularities_in_Norway


Related:

Norway and OOXML

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| There is now a report from Norway on how Microsoft rallied its partners to
| try to get a favorable vote on MSOOXML.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200708301301334

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