Now the total is up to four. Venezuela and India and joined Brazil and South Africa in appealing against the ratification of Microsoft’s Open Office XML format as the International Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) standard.
They filed their appeals before the Sunday night deadline and the IEC now has 30 days to ensure the appeals conform to the directives. Realistically speaking, though, it’s unlikely that the appeals will overturn the adoption on OOXML. But Groklaw, the open source legal site, has revealed that Morten Kjærsgaard, a member of the Danish technical committee and the head of Open Source Leverandørforeningen (OSL; the Association for Open Source Vendors) has sent a letter of complaint about the adoption of OOXML to the IEC.
