Apr 21, 2008
The Norway Vote - What really happened
A firsthand report on the farce of a meeting that resulted in Norway’s YES vote to standarizing OOXML:
And his decision was to vote Yes.
So this one bureaucrat, a man who by his own admission had no understanding of the technical issues, had chosen to ignore the advice of his Chairman, of 80% of his technical experts, and of 100% of the K185 old-timers. For the Chairman, only one course of action was possible.
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