And that wasn' t the only good news (was Re:Groklaw - Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights!...)

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org>

| More good news: A key decision to determine the USA official position
| the OpenXML file format as a standard  went AGAINST Microsoft by a
| narrow vote. As a result the US will be heavily pressured to stand
| against endorsement if OpenXML ever gets to an acceptance vote at ISO.
| 
| http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070810112044631

Evan: what's Canada up to on this?  Do you know?

BTW, the good news isn't 100% good.  Most of the "no" votes were
"no with comments".  They switch to "yes" if the comments are
addressed.

Prepare for recursion.

The comments on these votes were to the effect that the US should vote
"no, with comments" with the comments being a selection of the
technical public comments.

If the US so votes, the US "no" becomes a "yes" if the comments are
addressed (satisfactorily?).

Since I don't know the actual technical comments, I cannot tell if
that is a high bar.

Besides, there are a couple of weeks left for backroom magic before the US
vote is decided.
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