Taken from the mailing list of the 'open' doc society:
OOXML which was submitted by Microsoft to ECMA, and by ECMA to ISO, has
literally crawled through the needles eye.
Michiel was even so kind as to post the ISO results before ISO takes their official position tomorrow. Now I know the society is called 'OpenDoc(umentformat) society', but to actually open documents to the general society which ISO hasn't even released, that would seem to be somewhat inappropriate. Is this the kind of respect for ISO I can expect from that society?
After a year of discussion and repairs it still receives the very minimum of support
The report states 75% approval of Open XML, with the minimum of 66.66%. That to me is not minimum. The report states 14% disapproval of Open XML, with the maximum of 25%. That to me, is not minimum at all. Not a land-slide majority, but a majority none-the-less.
Sigh…
Still that negativism, and twisting of news. We can chuck it up with the news about Germany and Norway.