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OOXML Approved: (

estebandido | 2 April 2008

I placed a post on this page for Rafael Bonifaz

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Before you make the official announcement iso, both Microsoft and ECMA issued its press release announcing the victory of OOXML over reason.

So unofficial Open Malasya Blog , the following list of countries that voted apparently not OOXML.

Canada
China
Ecuador
India
Iran
New Zealand
South Africa
Brazil
Cuba

According to the site of openxml.info in several countries there are several cases of irregularities. One of the most notable is the case in Norway changed their vote from No to Yes even though 80% of the committee was against this decision. The reactions to this were immediate and the director of the technical committee has made a public protest on the subject.

I think this story is far from over. People from the community of free software in Latin America, we must seek the implementation of ODF as a national standard before spreading too fast OOXML.

Before ending this post I want to thank Microsoft for giving me the opportunity to meet people so intelligent and capable as I have known in this process. Today I have friends all over the world who think in a way similar to mine and together we can do great things. This was already demonstrated in September when we beat Microsoft and OOXML. This time we lost the battle, but we managed to form a community pro global open standards. Thanks Microsoft for this gift.

And as this video says " Microsoft we love "

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