From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,666bab5bfbdf30c2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news.netcologne.de!ramfeed1.netcologne.de!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:26:49 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VGhvbWFzIEzDuGNrZQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada References: <4d2908c7$0$22120$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <9f23e50a-2c2c-4ccc-bd56-f6ffdc6c7ee7@37g2000prx.googlegroups.com> <82aaj73jsr.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9c34f2cf-cb2c-4433-a6f7-b4c19d842fee@t35g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <4d2f7e0f$0$6773$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: <4d2f7e0f$0$6773$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <4d2feca9$0$23758$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.91.213.86 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=WTQ0Y[eZAjBCbPFlQZmVYDYSB=nbEKnkK`Lj]JVV7UTI1GQX8;5?CnGRED9SjB8:6IQo^8G8>AndM^PT46bDNh_C X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16424 Date: 2011-01-14T07:26:49+01:00 List-Id: On 2011-01-13 23:34, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > It is interesting to read the stories about ISO delegates from > northern Europe around the time .doc/OOXML was suggested as an > ISO standard. > Delegates have voted Yes although their national technical committees > had tended to vote No---the committees were then staffed by more > willing members that would understand the advantages of .doc > much better than the original members ... Coming from Denmark, this was a _very_ embarrassing process to bear witness to. It flies in the face of this study: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results Denmark is a Microsoft haven. For some odd reason(s) that one company have a very strong influence on the danish politicians/decision makers. -- Regards, Thomas Løcke Email: tl at ada-dk.org Web: http://ada-dk.org http://identi.ca/thomaslocke