On 01/03/2008, Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran@fsfe.org wrote:
The result, by Andy Updegrove: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080229055319... Sean Daly interviews Andy Updegrove http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080229171250199 I'm no ISO procedure expert, but my understanding is: after 5 days of discussion, the voting members at ISO's Ballot Resolution Meeting decided not to approve the OOXML specification. There simply wasn't enough time to discuss the numerous problems and the numerous proposed solutions. The final decision will be in 30 days time, but since the issues raised last September are officially unresolved, rejection by ISO is almost certain.
Not quite - their job was to put lipstick on this plucked chicken. This didn't make it any more of a human than before, featherless biped or no. So it's not dead until it's actually got a stake through its heart.
I have long theorised that this meeting was a red herring, and Microsoft will instead have been working on corrupting the national bodies that voted "no" or "abstain" - since the "yes" voters are fine.
- d.