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OOXML approved as an ISO standard

Posted Apr 3, 2008 4:17 UTC (Thu) by foo-bar (guest, #22971)
In reply to: OOXML approved as an ISO standard by man_ls
Parent article: OOXML approved as an ISO standard

To my understanding it won't work this way in Norway. This country is too rich and too
independent to be bribed in that trivial way. (I'm not an Norwegian BTW).

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No it isn't

Posted Apr 3, 2008 22:38 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Apparently not that immune to bribery:

There was a massive protest when Standard Norge decided that Norway will say yes to OOXML, despite the fact that most of the comitee-representatives were against.

Link found on LWN cover story

No it isn't

Posted Apr 8, 2008 5:27 UTC (Tue) by foo-bar (guest, #22971) [Link]

I didn't say it's immune to bribery. However IMHO the bribery must be on a different scale to
be efficient :-)