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# Romania says yes to OOXML once again

Posted: Mar 27, 2008, under Romania, Morals&Politics, Standards. Add a comment!

On March 26, Dan Matei, the president of CT210, the Technical Comittee within ASRO in charge of OOXML, made public the results of Romania's decision regarding the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard: 15 votes for it, 6 votes against and 5 abstentions. Read on for the dirty details.

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  1. Posted by Bogdan Bivolaru, on March 27, 2008, 08:25.

    "Several participants have reported that the actual meeting, which took place on March 23, was well organized and civil, and that heated outbursts were few and restricted to the debate portion of the discussions."

    Pardon me, the official CT210 meeting wasn't it on March 25? If not, which is then the Official ASRO meeting?

  2. Posted by Skippy, on March 27, 2008, 17:28.

    Yes, you are perfectly right of course. The 25th was the day of the vote. I have corrected the text in the meanwhile, thanks for pointing it out.

  3. Posted by The size matters; especially in Romania :( | Lucian Savluc - Blog, on March 28, 2008, 01:59.

    […] I found this article pretty interesting and pretty self explanatory. Although the author is playing with suppositions, I would suggest you read, think and decide for yourself. What is your common sense saying? “Romania says yes to OOXML once again” […]

  4. Posted by The Linux Index » Jani Monoses: Romania maintains OOXML approval, on March 30, 2008, 05:42.

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  5. Posted by MrSmersh, on April 15, 2008, 23:37.

    I Computer Solution joined in October or so… MS regional director is a country title. And we can continue over and over with inaccuracies interpretations and so.
    And as we have talked over and over on Tic-Lobby and everywhere please "get the facts first then talk".
    Why do not talk about of avoid the discussion on the text of the standard and instead hiding under the Rob (or name you favorite corporate employee ) mantle, and other discussions on the kind:
    “it is bad!”
    “why so?”
    “because somebody …. said that!”
    “you have tried to do that?, it exist in the current version of the standard, you have looked ?”
    “….”
    Also bare in mind that the vote composition YES/NO/Abstained remained virtually unchanged between voting, and even Microsoft cannot perform this kind of miracle. So I suppose you could say that is pretty consistent with the position of the Romanian market.
    Look at the end of the day if the corporations did not mess in this process we will still be a few trampled with documents in ASRO trying to get some work done. You add 2-3 corporations and you have this mess of corporate war waged in the ISO.