Esteban Mendieta Jara - Blog

Ecuador voted "no" to ECMA-375 Standard ISO 29500 as proposed by Micrososft (r) after the informational committee was created to address this issue did not consenso.La international community and area specialists drafted a document of 148 technical comments that refer to:

• "Induction of bugs those who use the standard"
• "Introduction deliberate error in the handling of dates (eg can not be represented on August 10, 1809, being prior to 1900)
• "Contradiction with other ISO standards"
• "Dependence of Microsoft Windows (r) and Microsft Apps (r) in order to function"
• "No use of existing ISO standards and use proprietary formats Microsoft"
• among others.

Despite these questions Micrososft (r) has maintained a strong defense to his standard on committees involved in this process that has been committed to incidents in Sweden (who changed his vote from "yes" to "abstain" in assuming pressure Micrososft (r)), Portugal (chaired by Micrososft (r) and not allowed into IBM representative citing lack of space in the room); and Uruguay (where it has questioned the manner of voting).

Taken from: Radio RVT