IBM voted NO today in ECMA on approval for Microsoft’s Open XML spec.
Correction: further to Bob's comment, I've gone to the ECMA site and found the press release announcing the approval of the standard. Naively, I thought that somebody voting against it would block it: not so. Apologies for my over-enthusiastic analysis. I suppose IBM's move was therefore more symbolic than anything. Ah well.
We just voted no, we didn't block it.
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OK, do you mean that it's gone through anyway?
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