James Knott wrote:

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So what does this mean, if I may ask?


In what respect? As things stand, it will become an ISO "standard". However, unlike most other ISO standards, there was blatant cheating, such as ballot stuffing, committees ignoring majority votes, "rules" made up on the fly, bought votes etc., to the point there's a real stink being raise, to the point in at least two countries, the committees are filing protests. It's quite plain to see that in this case, ISO approval was bought, which means that all ISO standards must now be suspect, as you don't know if someone paid for them. However, what happens if enough votes are reversed to kill this?

The whole point of this, was so that Microsoft could claim "ISO standard", so that government etc., are more likely to buy their new office versions, in order to force lock in.

Exactly!!!

Fred

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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