Hungarian Standards Institution to reconsider its vote! http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042/hungarian-standards-institution-to-reconsider-its-vote Posts in the discussion thread "Hungarian Standards Institution to reconsider its vote!" - Hungarian Standards Institution to reconsider its vote on OOXML http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042#post-46068 Re: Hungarian Standards Institution to reconsider its vote! http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042/hungarian-standards-institution-to-reconsider-its-vote#post-46068 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:45:03 +0000 ggiedke 32664 there's a nice summary over at Groklaw
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070902123701843
adding more detail to the proceedings in Hungary and, in particular, the notes from the Hungarian NB meeting, taken by a participant (Tomka Gergely).

]]> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042#post-45312 Re: Hungarian Standards Institution to reconsider its vote! http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042/hungarian-standards-institution-to-reconsider-its-vote#post-45312 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:15:44 +0000 84.0.20.74 Hungarian Standards Body: no official position on OOXML

]]> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042#post-44884 Re: Hungarian Standards Institution to reconsider its vote! http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042/hungarian-standards-institution-to-reconsider-its-vote#post-44884 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:31:34 +0000 82.150.62.62 Story on Slashdot, LinuxToday:

NZ, Sweden, Hungary Reflect OOXML Turmoil
<NO>OOXML: Hungarian Standards Institution to Reconsider Its Vote on OOXML

]]> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042#post-44794 Hungarian Standards Institution to reconsider its vote! http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042/hungarian-standards-institution-to-reconsider-its-vote#post-44794 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:40:02 +0000 nono 33292 Mr János Kóka, Minister of Economy and Transport, has sent a mail to György Pónyai, General Director of Hungarian Standards Institution (HSI), about its the Hungarian vote on OOXML issue. In this mail the minister informed the director, that the IBM Magyarországi Kft (the Hungarian subsidiary of IBM) signed concerns about the way how the Hungarian vote was decided on the OOXML issue (draft of ISO/IEC DIS 25900 standard) on the meeting of the Committee on 25th June 2007. As known, the meeting was organized breaking the internal rules of HSI on decisive meetings. The invitations for the meeting were not sent to the parties in time, then the voting rules were changed by the secretary of the Committee so that only the 50% of the votes is enough for a decision instead of the 2/3 lied down in the original rules. Because of these circumstances, the counterinterested parties were not able to vote on the meeting, therefore the official Hungarian opinion on the issue is “yes” for OOXML as ISO standard. However because of these anomalies, the minister has ordered HSI to restore the juridical situation, and repeat the vote on 31th August 2007.

Since then, new members have been inaugurated to the committee of the HSI, where the only requirement of membership is a fee of 100-200 euros. Many of the new members seem to have tight relationships with Microsoft.

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