[odf-discuss] New Zealand voting NO

[Matthew Cruickshank]

Russell Ossendryver wrote:
> http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=7322

We're going to be celebrating tonight!

The Open Source Society had a great few days at the workshop that 
Standards NZ ran. I've got my meeting notes here on the arguments used 
for and against,

    http://nzoss.org.nz/notes-from-standards-nz-meeting-on-ooxml

After the Standards NZ workshop Microsoft came out with a ridiculous 
newspaper campaign,

    http://it.gen.nz/ooxml/msnzopenletter.pdf

Which we responded to with humour,

    http://holloway.co.nz/sincerity-generator/

And facts,

    http://nzoss.org.nz/node/185


Prior to the Standards NZ workshop the NZ government agencies took the 
time to consult and reach consensus. During the workshop they were 
unwavering in their view of "No". I think they were perhaps the most 
influential.

IBM and Google also were well spoken and played a major role in 
supporting the legal arguments.

It's great news and a fantastic result to the months of work that NZOSS, 
Govt.NZ, Google, IBM and many others put in.


.Matthew Cruickshank
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