Six questions to national standardisation bodies

It seems that many people have been confused by Microsoft's attempt at trying to portray MS-OOXML as an Open Standard, which includes methods such as paying bloggers to manipulate Wikipedia or trying to confuse people about competition on the basis of a common standard, which is generally good for competition, vs competition of multiple standards, which is generally bad for competition.  Read more...

The following six questions relate to the application of the ECMA/MS-OOXML format to be accepted as an IEC/ISO standard. Unless a national standardisation body has conclusive answers to all of them, it should vote no in IEC/ISO and request that Microsoft incorporate its work on MS-OOXML into ISO/IEC 26300:2006 (Open Document Format).  The 6 Questions