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CEOs oppose appeals of Microsoft standard vote
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| Representatives for both the ISO and IEC did not immediately respond to a
| request for comment.
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| Andrew Updegrove, an attorney with Gesmer Updegrove LLP who has closely
| followed the Open XML debate, said the executives'
| recommendations "demonstrate the very limited degree to which decisions made
| by ISO/IEC can be appealed, no matter how ill-considered they may be
| considered to have been by those that have participated in the process."
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/organization-leaders-oppose-appeals-microsoft/story.aspx?guid=%7BD1AD8738-7759-4C42-91FE-A97695A9FB2E%7D&dist=msr_2
Has ISO already rejected anti-OOXML appeals?
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| ISO refuses to discuss the leak.
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| Our indecision is final
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| “ISO and IEC prefer not to comment on whether internal documents said to
| originate from the two organisations and posted on Web blogs as ‘leaked
| information’ are authentic or not,” ISO communications manager Roger Frost
| emailed us yesterday.
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| ”No decision on the appeals has been made. The current situation is that the
| ISO secretary-general and the IEC general secretary have submitted the
| appeals, with their analysis, to the ISO Technical Management Board and the
| IEC Standardisation Management Board who will decide by mid August whether
| the appeals should be further processed or not.”
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/11/iso_rejects_ooxml_appeals/
Yesterday:
New doubts about ISO's fast-track standardisation of Microsoft OOXML
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| An internal document of the International Standards Organization (ISO) that
| found its way late last week on to the Wikileaks whistle-blower platform
| raises further questions about the choice of a fast-track certification for
| Microsoft's OOXML document format. The paper, by Joint Technical Committee
| No. 1 (JTC 1) of the Geneva standards organization, which dates back to July
| 2007, says the fast track procedure chosen for certifying Microsoft's
| document format is only intended for the acceptance of unaltered standards
| and that a standard not accepted in its original form, while not to be
| regarded as "2nd class" or illegitimate, should be put through the normal
| five-stage standardisation process, should necessary corrections be
| identified in advance. The fast-track process, it says, is intended for
| making changes to an original draft.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/New-doubts-about-ISO-s-fast-track-standardisation-of-Microsoft-OOXML--/111065
Recent:
ISO Fantasy
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| What OOXML Is · The ISO process, brutal and corrupt as it was, has been
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| covered to death by everyone. Its output, soon to be known as ISO/IEC 29500,
| differs from ECMA-376 in two ways. ¶
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| [...]
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| What Microsoft really wanted was that ISO stamp of approval to use as a
| marketing tool. And just like your mother told you, when they get what they
| want and have their way with you, they’re probably not gonna call you in the
| morning.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/04/15/OOXML
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.
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| [...]
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| 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
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