"ISO/IEC announced that the Open XML specification won overwhelming
approval. 86% (61 countries!) of voting ISO countries stated that they
want to see Open XML ratified as an ISO/IEC standard .."
"groups opposed to ratification of Open XML want to continue their
harangue and tear down anyone who doesn't agree with them .."
"They have resorted to making accusations of impropriety on the part
of national standards bodies .."
"There is a simple word for this: hypocrisy. After all, IBM itself
actively recruited partners and others to join standards bodies"
http://janvandenbeld.blogspot.com/2008/04/hypocrisy.html
"ex-ECMA and now CompTIA (Microsoft lobbyst group) member, Jan van den
Beld explains how multiple standards come to be on ECMA"
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/02/jan-van-den-beld-exposed/
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