{"id":753,"date":"2008-03-21T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/21\/when-adults-act-like-kids-or-how-microsoft-sullys-the-standards-process"},"modified":"2008-03-21T08:50:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T13:50:59","slug":"when-adults-act-like-kids-or-how-microsoft-sullys-the-standards-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/21\/when-adults-act-like-kids-or-how-microsoft-sullys-the-standards-process","title":{"rendered":"When adults act like kids or how Microsoft sullys the standards process"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a mere eight<\/a> days (March 29, 2008), the vote for the fast-track of ECMA-376 will have to be concluded. In the APAC region, the Participating (“P” member countries) countries are Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Back in September 2007, Australia and Malaysia abstained<\/strong>, while Singapore voted to approve<\/strong>, and the rest, voted to disapprove<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So, will there be a change in votes, come eight days? India, has chosen to lead the pack<\/a> and say that they still disapprove<\/strong> (much kudos to Venky<\/a> for this information).<\/p>\n

I’ve largely not followed the debate, but seeing Doug Mahugh’s blog posts, and how he seems to act rather immaturely, I can only hope that PIKOM, and naturally SIRIM look at the previous abstain vote, and decide to change it to a disapprove<\/strong>. Naturally, that’s not the only reason (that in itself will seem childish) – its just that the OOXML specification seems largely incomplete, despite the 8,000+ pages that exist out there (I’m including edits in the specification in that number).<\/p>\n

Now, back to the real point of this. I challenge an adult to read, the following entries, and tell me if Doug doesn’t seem childish:<\/p>\n