Thursday, 30 August 2007
ISO: Standards For Sale - No Standards for Standards
It turns out that Microsoft has admitted, after being caught red handed, to buying votes in Sweden for their OOXML proposed standard. See the groklaw article for details.
Sweden has invalidated it's vote, concluded that there isn't time to revote, and abstained. The net result is that a NO vote was turned into ABSTAIN, netting MS half a point. If ISO approves this standard, I will lose all respect for ISO, as it means that there are no standards for standards.
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Posted by at 3:22 PM in the internet, web, web 2.0 and beyond
