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		<title>Microsoft Business Partners invading the vote in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-13904/microsoft-business-partners-invading-the-vote-in-the-us</link>
		<description>Posts in the discussion thread &quot;Microsoft Business Partners invading the vote in the US&quot; - As it is happening in other countries such as Denmark and Italy, Microsoft is invading the technical committees of each National Standardisation Bodies with their Business Partners puppets.</description>
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				<title>Microsoft Business Partners invading the vote in the US</title>
				<link>http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-13904/microsoft-business-partners-invading-the-vote-in-the-us#post-34720</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>Rob Weir is pointing to the same phenomena which is happening in many countries: Microsoft is buying the voice of technical committees of most countries, by flooding those with their business partners. <a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/ooxml-fails-to-gain-approval-in-us.html">This happened in the US</a>, where the number of voting participants quickly moved from 7 to 26 voters.</p> 
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