Jason Matusow talks about the US vote

posted by  varson (7)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Jason is on the standards team in Microsoft, and he has a blog post discussing some of the moves to block Open XML at ISO coming from the anti-OpenXML movement (they even set up a 2,500 euro bounty on it):

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2007/07/18/open-xml-us-v1-committee-vote-and-ibm-motivations.aspx

I wasn't involved in any of the discussions, but to me it's not surprising that you're seeing more people take an interest in Open XML going thr