One small question, Does the ISO rectify a standard based on the votes from representatives in various countries?
Does every country have to vote yes in order for the standard to be approved, or is it a majority vote? Is there some sort of QA at ISO to check the standards themselves? My biggest fear is that the standard is 6000 pages of vague text. This will leave Novell, Sun, IBM and other OpenOffice.org developers at a disadvantage when it comes to implementing OOXML. What I'm worried about is not OOXML being approved, but OOXML being approved in its current state. If OpenOffice.org could read OOXML files as easily as Microsoft Word, then there would be no infringement on the freedom of information act and at least the standard would be politically correct (regardless of the bribery involved to get the standard approved...) Keith On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 15:53 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote: > OMG, i pity you ramon, i would probably have thrown something there > adn then > > On 8/31/07, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > YOU'RE angry? You didn't have to sit through a whole morning > of watching the head of Microsoft Malta (masquerading as " > Maltadev.net") smiling smugly as he ensured that everyone > voted as instructed. Unfortunately no weapons of mass > destruction were within reach at the time. > > -- > Ramon Casha > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
