Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML
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23 companies joined the Swedish Standards Institute SIS at the last minute to participate in the vote on OOXML. All but one are Microsoft partners and voted for accepting the new standard without having been part of any discussion.
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Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML
ggiedkeggiedke 1188314313|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

The sad story of Microsoft hijacking the standardization process continues. Months of thorough work and hundreds of detailed comments on the deficiencies of the proposed standard have been brushed aside by the newcomers, as FFII.se, which participated in the discussions reports:
http://ffii.se/pr/2007-08-27-se-ooxml-vote-en.html

Note that in Germany, OOXML-critical companies have been denied the right to vote with the argument that they didn't participate in all of the foregoing discussions…
Is the vote of the working group binding or can Sweden in principle still vote No? — as suggested here:
http://stupid.domain.name/node/382

Here's the SIS press release (in Swedish):
http://www.newsdesk.se/pressroom/sis_swedish_standards_institute_/pressrelease/view/sverige-saeger-ja-till-office-open-xml-som-global-standard-163993

There's also a Slashdot discussion
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/28/1237255

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