Poland: You don't vote, so you vote in favour of the standard

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PolishLinux reports that the chairman of the committee continued its frenzy with counting the members who don't cast any vote as voting for the standard. You don't vote, so you vote in favor of the standard. What the heck?

Poland: You don't vote, so you vote in favour of the standard

zoobab 31 Mar 2008 13:48

PolishLinux reports that the chairman of the committee continued its frenzy with counting the members who don't cast any vote as voting for the standard:

The chairman of KT 182 (technical commmittee responsible for OOXML standarization), Elżbieta Andrukiewicz, decided on March 20th that the e-mail voting will take place in order to come up with the final decision. Here is how the votes look like:

• 24 members voted to approve (7 of them without even knowing that, since no vote was counted as a vote to approve),
• 13 members voted against approving the standard (a ‘NO’ vote),
• 4 remaining members decided that Poland should abstain from voting.

Thus, the final decision of Poland is “YES, without comments”, which is no change comparing to the vote from September 2007.

You don't vote, so you vote in favor of the standard. What the heck?