web kracked wrote:
Actually today I read that MS was defeated in the initial
bid to get their Open XML format as a/the ISO standard
but MS claimed that they were suscessful with their bid.
About 51% YES instead of 66.66% need
About 26% NO instead of less than 25% required
If you do some digging into the numbers and reports of irregularities,
you will find that MS employees and partners helped national groups in
seven countries to upgrade from Observer to Participating in order to
vote yes, and rigged the votes in several other countries. In two of the
latter, the votes were canceled (they abstained) after those
irregularities were exposed. There have also been complaints and
lawsuits filed in a few others. But they still only got 51% when the
rules require two thirds. That 74% includes all of the observer
countries, which are not counted in the official tally.
There were several interesting threads on this at www.groklaw.net over
the past two weeks. There are a handful of countries that voted yes even
though the proposed standard and its sole implementation do not support
their national language.
Bob McConnell
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