On Wednesday 29 August 2007 03:26, MJ Ray wrote:
Not sure whether fsfe.org has this already, as I can't connect. This site accuses Microsoft of sock-puppetry in the Swedish standards body in two posts: http://stupid.domain.name/node/382 http://stupid.domain.name/node/385
The Swedish FFII have an article about it: http://ffii.se/pr/2007-08-27-se-ooxml-vote.html (Swedish) http://ffii.se/pr/2007-08-27-se-ooxml-vote-en.html (English, partial translation)
| In meeting at SIS yesterday on the standardisation of Microsoft's OOXML file | format (i.e. in principle the file format used in Office 2007) 23 new | companies suddenly appeared that had not previously participated in the | working group, a majority of these companies are Microsoft partners (see | enclosed). | From a clear NO-majority among the members, the result in the course of just | one day became a YES. The final result was 25 in favour, 6 against; 4 | members left the meeting."
There's a lot more information on the blog linked from those pages.