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XML spec editor: OOXML ISO process is “unadulterated BS”
“Participants say that only a small portion of the ECMA responses were actually discussed during the BRM. When time ran out, the rest of the responses were simply approved without any review at all.”
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PC Pro: News: Nevermind the bulls**t, here’s OOXML, says Microsoft
“However, Canadian representative and Sun employee, Tim Bray, claims that thousands of the comments were simply approved in a block vote rather than being properly considered.”
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PC World – Rules altered in OOXML standardization process
“ISO delegates working to standardize Open Office XML created new rules on the fly to cover the fact they failed to discuss nearly 80 per cent of the 1,100 questions submitted about the document specification format because they ran out of time during their five-day meeting in Geneva.”
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Rubber-stamping of OOXML raises concerns – Computerworld UK – The Voice of IT Management
“But if the standard is adopted in its current form, “there are likely to be hundreds of defects”, said the head of the US delegation at the meeting, Frank Farance.”
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An Antic Disposition: The Art of Being Mugged
“This was merely the least bad of several bad choices that the ITTF deigned to allow us at the end of a grueling week trying to resolve 3,522 issues in bloated, technically immature proposal that has been mismanaged from the start.”
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Weak ISO support for changes to Open XML throws shadow over final approval
“A committee of ISO members in Geneva may have approved the proposed changes to Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) on Friday, but the document format’s final approval remains far from certain.”
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Bureaucracy swamps ISO meeting on Microsoft format | Technology | Reuters
“A meeting to hammer out a consensus on whether a Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) document format should become an international standard descended into near chaos this week, people close to the meeting told Reuters.”
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