The Balkan Yankee

Business as usual in the Balkans(cough - corruption - cough) as Microsoft gets some unusually strong regional support for OOXML. Not a single country in the region with voting rights came out against it.

What’s OOXML all about? Just more dirty tricks from Microsoft, trying to lock us into an inferior format so they can collect on patent licensing:

OOXML is an immature documentation of one vendor’s proprietary document format which depends on software patents held by this vendor, which block interoperability. It conflicts with existing ISO standards. More than three hundred technical comments have been raised by industry, academics, researchers, and experts. The ISO JTC-1 Directive p.48 section 9.8 requires national bodies to vote “NO with comments” if there remain unanswered technical problems. The accuracy and honesty of the voting process has been questioned in many countries.
-http://www.noooxml.org

Also, Here is a link to a map showing Global voting results.

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