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Short version: MS paid a ton of business partners to show up at the last minute to rig the Swedish standards vote in favor of OOXML (which would never have passed Swedish Standards Institute otherwise), shit hits the fan, top story in newspapers, MS panics and backpedals like crazy, Swedish Standards Institute declares vote invalid and that it will abstain its vote in ISO<BR>
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On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 15:03 +0100, Peter Liddell wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">can someone give us the gist of this story for those of us who don't speak Swedish?</FONT>
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