[odf-discuss] Poland's ISO vote in question

[Christian Einfeldt]

The problem with this whole OOXML ISO thing has been that even if Microsoft
looses, Microsoft will have damaged the ISO process for an extended period
of time.  The basic message that Microsoft is putting out is 1)  we don't
respect standards or standards bodies that don't favor us; 2) don't fail to
accept a Microsoft product as a standard, or we will trash your standards
body; 3) we can wreck any public process and turn it into either a private
process by buying votes or by trashing the public process.

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/28/1248241

*"IBM's representative for KT182 (the committee empowered to vote on OOXML
in Poland) accused the committee's chair of intentionally manipulating the
process<http://polishlinux.org/poland/possible-manipulation-around-ooxml-process-in-poland/>.
A letter from the president of the body overseeing KT182, sent a month ago
to the committee chair for distribution to all committee members, was never
distributed. The letter recommended that, if consensus were not achieved on
the OOXML vote, then Poland should abstain. This follows up my recent report
on the OOXML process in
Poland<http://polishlinux.org/poland/no-consensus-over-ooxml-in-poland-yet/>(also
covered
by Groklaw <http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080322203811784>), it
looks like things are going bad this time, at least as bad as in
October."*The EU is already
investigating<http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/08/213222&tid=123>the
Polish process based on complaints last fall. Is anyone tracking all
of
the allegations and investigations surrounding OOXML?
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