Stefano Bortolotti, italy, was the 40,000th person to sign the petition.
Forty thousand people took the time to read the petition, sign it, and confirm their signature. Microsoft: if you thought this was just "IBM and its commercial allies" opposing you, as you keep writing on the Wikipedia OOXML page, be warned! You have forty thousand angry people around the world thinking of ways to stop you. It's time to recognize that you're going be beaten by the community, and try to save some face. Take back your nasty OOXML junk. Apologise for stuffing the national boards with your flunkies. Say you're sorry for trying to fix the rules to your advantage. Tell us you'll fix the 300-plus bugs in your so-called-international-standard, and take out the patent bombs. Stop using ECMA to whore your way into ISO. Become a respectable citizen of the digital society, or we will whip you and run you out of town. It stops here. No more. — Pieter Hintjens, President of the FFII
