Comments

• Victor Soliz

  2008-03-29 19:16:33

  May I ask what does the four represent?

• ODF supporter

  2008-03-29 21:09:44

  if you didn't know; norway and denmark voted yes for ooxml.

• Victor Soliz

  2008-03-29 21:37:40

  Even if OOXML wins, we'll fight for ODF, MS wanted two standards and that's what they are going to get, they will still have to implement ODF correctly and I hope the EU helps common sense there.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-03-30 02:36:37

  Even if OOXML wins...

  
  
  Win this small round, you mean? This is just a first step and I believe it's going to backfire.
  
  The EU Commission is already investigating this. Expect very heavy fines.
  
  Additionally, watch the EC Web site. Short of embargo, procurement of Free software is strongly being encouraged.
  
  As Neelie said a month ago, "if you flee the rules, you will get caught and it will cost you dearly."

• LinuxIsFun

  2008-03-30 05:36:39

  Microsoft has lot of money and it is willing to pay the fines. It just needs to have its own way at expenses of others.
  
  I = I S = Sold O = Out
  
  ISO has lot all credibility.
  
  It seems that OOXML is finally going to be accepted as a ISO standard unless some magic happens at the last moment. Money speaks.
  
  Atleast some countries did vote "No" (to the money).

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-03-30 05:54:35

  It won't be the end of that. Quite a lot of investigations are being launched at the moment. If you spot abuses, please share them here because we need them documented where there are leaks (many will remain unreported).

• Victor Soliz

  2008-03-30 11:54:18

  Just ignore the vote, too many irregularities, the outcome is OOXML winning by ONE vote, and there are way too many P countries in which there were irregularities, let's hope the EU saves the ISO.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-03-30 14:58:05

  ISO should halt the process given all that has been published in the past few days. There are also the anti-trust questions to wonder about. The only problem that I see is that ISO is to a great extent controlled by Microsoft (we showed this before), so it's likely to just do what's good for Microsoft, not necessarily for ISO's reputation.
  
  Remember that destruction of ISO's reputation works in Microsoft's favour. I'll write a post about it (with limited but compelling evidence) shortly.