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What Really Happened at the BRM for OOXML and Who Attended - Updates on Results

By Pamela Jones et al.

The details are out now. Jomar Silva, a delegate from Brazil, which voted No, has now done what he said he would do and has posted what he saw and heard at the BRM. It is a deeply shocking tale of maneuvering the delegates to vote against their will by presenting a kind of Sophie's Choice of options, all designed, according to what I gather from his account, to get a positive result for Microsoft. I'd certainly like to see the Directives that support the choices as presented. Silva talks about where the numbers behind the infamous slide asserting that "98% of issues were resolved" came from, and you'll see how it misrepresents what really happened. Best of all, he provides documents that support what he tells us. No wonder the EU Commission is investigating. What can I say? If a format can win "approval" as a "standard" only like this, is it really a standard?

Full post as published by Groklaw on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).