On Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 12:04 +0100, Gareth 'bigbro' Eason wrote:
>> In case you've not seen it, it looks like the BSI (British Standards
> Institute) are being brought to court by the UKUUG (UK Unix Users'
> Group) over their about turn re standardisation of the Microsoft OOXML
> specification.
>> Reg article at
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/bsi_ooxml_vote_high_court>>> I'm not sure what can be done here in Ireland, but at the very least, a
> number of letters from interested parties to the NSAI (National
> Standards Authority for Ireland) questioning their stance on it might be
> appropriate.
>> Thoughts?
IFSO have made an FOI request to the NSAI in an attempt to get a
little more insight into the decision making process over this. Our
letter is online here: http://www.ifso.ie/documents/correspondence/
(specifically, the first link, which is to:
http://www.ifso.ie/documents/correspondence/20080422nsaiFoi.pdf )
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