[Gllug] UKUUG press release

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:52:04PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:36:38PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> > UKUUG appeals the initial court decision on BSI's OOXML action
> > 
> > See:
> > 	http://www.ukuug.org/ooxml/
> 
> What I don't understand about this is what jurisdiction the court can
> claim over essentially a private organization (ISO).  Surely ISO are
> free to make up and break their own rules as they wish?  (I mean -- it
> will probably terminally undermine their credibility, but if it's what
> ISO wants to do, then ISO can do it).

We are going after BSI. BSI is one of the national bodies that votes on
acceptance/... of standards. So it affects ISO indirectly.
BSI is a ltd company but is amenable to Judicial Review.

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