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Re: [xml-dev] Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML?
- From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 14:59:20 +1000 (EST)
Dennis Sosnoski said:
> It's now clear that bribery *was* part of the process, with the emails
> from Microsoft promising extra "marketing contributions" as a payoff for
> voting for Open XML:
> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/F36E6AC141F8C10ECC2573470074B795
The other side to the story is that MS discovered and fixed the
mistaken/inept email within hours, that they alerted SIS, and that it
wouldn't have impacted the vote:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2007/08/29/open-xml-the-vote-in-sweden.aspx
The abandonment of the vote was on a quite different issue of time (not
enough to time to reschedule the vote before the ISO deadline after a
miscount was discovered.) DIS 29500 would have been accepted 25-6 it
seems: why would they bribe if they didn't need to?
This looks like a beat-up. Appropriate to bring up Karl Rove though, it
was just what I was thinking...
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
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