In Close Vote, Germany Stays in the OOXML "Yes" Column as More Reports Dribble
in
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| 8 votes were in favour of "YES", 6 were in favour of "ABSTAIN", some pointing
| out that they would have preferred to vote an outright "NO". 4 voted "abstain
| to the DIN vote", i.e. on the vote between "YES" and "ABSTAIN" to ISO. 2 of
| the 4 had initially voted for a German "ABSTAIN", but under pressure changed
| within 48 hours their vote from a German "ABSTAIN" to "abstain to the DIN
| vote"; one of the 4 was compelled by instruction to vote "abstain to the DIN
| vote", even though he wanted to vote at least "ABSTAIN". That means: without
| very strong pressure from Microsoft Germany would have voted "ABSTAIN", with
| 9 to 8.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080327181802109
Updegrove: Germany Told "Impossible" to Vote No. So, They Vote Yes - Update:
Finland Yes
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| Andy Updegrove is reporting now that Germany is another odd case. He says a
| friend is telling him that DIN told the committee there they couldn't vote
| no, only yes or abstain. So the bottom line is it will not change its
| September Yes vote. I know. Weird. They certainly can vote no, according to
| my reading of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 website. Maybe they should vote again?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080327231223154
Shades of the new story from Poland (see below) and the older one from
Switzerland. Corporate zombies and corruption.
Yesterday:
Polish chairwoman distributes Microsoft propaganda
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| The Chairwoman of the polish Technical Committee has distributed
| documentation about the BRM authored by Microsoft. She has also changed the
| voting rules for the email ballot to "If you don't vote, it is counted as a
| YES", and she has threatened to sue committee members if they spread
| accusations. What a nice broken chairwoman they have in Poland.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49455/polish-chairwoman-distributes-microsoft-propaganda
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!
|
| 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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