<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/8/31, Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) <<a href="mailto:rick@piratpartiet.se">rick@piratpartiet.se</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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), </div></blockquote>
<div><br>This is where it would have stopped in my country.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>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
</div></blockquote><div><br>This is what is amazing. It wouldn't have made top story in Spanish newspapers, and neither Microsoft nor any institution would have backed up. I find it awesome that your newspapers have made this top news. Congratulations!
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