Hungarian Standards Institution to reconsider its vote on OOXML

hup.hu — Mr János Kóka, Minister of Economy and Transport, has sent a mail to György Pónyai, General Director of Hungarian Standards Institution (HSI), about its the Hungarian vote on OOXML issue. In this mail the minister informed the director, that the IBM Magyarországi Kft (the Hungarian subsidiary of IBM) signed concerns about the way how the Hungarian Aug 30, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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db113456 Aug 30, 2007

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OK, the article is in Hungarian, but here is the short and stubby:There will be another vote on Friday (tomorrow)There are "15-20 vagy m?g enn?l is t?bb MS f?gg? / t?mogat? c?g l?pett be" 15-20 new Microsoft dependent new members joining the the voting committee.There is a rule that requires 2/3 (two third) majority for a yes vote, but that needs to be invoked somehow, if the invoking of this rule does not work, than there is no hope and Hungary will vote yes to ooxml.

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<a class="user" href="http://hup.hu/node/44103">http://hup.hu/node/44103</a>Hungary will not cast a vote on the ISO ooxml vote. Something similar to the Swedish position, with the difference that no voting took place.I guess they saw the stuffing and refused to get stuffed in the first place.