Date: 14 Mar 2008 16:04
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The full text is here:
http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/RedHatOOXMLPosition.pdf
And Red Hat is supporting Document Freedom Day on March 26, 2008:
During the initial review and voting process in September, National Bodies identified 3,522 issues to
be resolved in the standard. Those comments were whittled down to approximately 1,100 on the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) agenda in February, but only 20 or so were actually discussed and resolved. In order to complete the agenda, the remaining comment dispositions (which were never discussed) were combined for a single vote. Six delegations voted to approve, four voted to disapprove and sixteen delegations abstained. Four delegations refused to register and vote at all. Since the abstentions and refusals to vote did not count in the final tally, the disposition of comments was approved by a margin of six votes to four votes. Now, National Bodies are being asked to submit their final votes for OOXML by the end of March, when it is clearly evident that there is simply not enough time to review or resolve the proposed changes. The attempt to fast-track this format through ISO provides inadequate review time for the proposed standard.