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

hahaha -- great correlation by EFFI (via Lars Wirzenius); countries preceived to be "very corrupt" by the Corruption Perceptions Index tended to vote favourably to MS' proposed standard

'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