omg this is utterly idiotic. not impressed

the OOXML fiasco. unsurprisingly, bureaucrats go to do whatever they wanted -- come on, what did people expect from the ISO?

'SC34 suddenly has a lot of new ['participating member' countries] sending representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.' up to their old dirty tricks, then

a concise, but complete, list of objections to Microsoft's proposed standardisation of the MS Word file format as an ISO standard. a strong case; tey even invent a new date representation, and treat 1900 as a leap year (MS vs. the Gregorian calendar!)