• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@r...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:14:34 -0400

Interesting article on the Swedish vote on making OOXML an ISO Standard:

Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML
Posted by Kim Haverblad - Monday, 27 August 2007
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14868/1/

According to this article, 23 companies joined without prior notice in 
order to be able to vote, which would have clearly been a "no" vote 
without the votes of these new companies. Most of these companies are 
Microsoft partners.

One of these new companies was Google, which strongly opposes OOXML, and 
has created the following position paper:

http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/Google%20OOXML%20Q%20%20A.pdf

Jonathan

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