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RE: Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXML?

• From: Len Bullard <len.bullard@u...>
• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@r...>
• Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:53:15 -0500

Someone should have gone to the US Supreme Court first which has a precedent
for reversing elections.

I agree.  As the problem of the rule shown, it should be fixed.  One wonders
what the side effects of that will be.  Realistically, the next time
something like this comes up, all interested parties need to sign up early
and stay late. Otherwise, each side picks their meanest guy or gal and sends
them into the Thunderdome... after testing for steroids.

To rail at MS, enabling the IDE to make a relational primary ID editable is
all I needed to have demoed.  But since the app we've been working on since
May just deployed on the test server and ran I'm happy with them today.
Tomorrow is another day.

len


From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@r...] 

Two more interesting developments on the Swedish vote reported earlier 
in this thread (see http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14868/1/ ).

1. The Swedish SIS board has decided to declare their vote invalid 
(http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=200708301301334&title=S
IS+Declares+OOXML+Vote+Invalid&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=61262
9#c612649).

2. Italy had a vote in which 89 new members joined just in time, 
supplementing the original 5 members 
(http://www.piana.eu/?q=en/node/33). This time around, companies on both 
sides of the issue joined at the last minute, and OOXML lost the vote.

A rule requiring members to participate actively for 45 days before 
voting on major issues might make this kind of shenanigans less likely .....

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