South Africa votes no on OOXML – again.

Just a heads up that South Africa has again voted not to approve OOXML as a standard remaining one of the P-member “NO” votes.
The recent comments by the Minister suggests that the government is strongly in favor of ODF and has standardized on it already. The governments clear unhappiness with the attempt to illegally patent OOXML in South Africa (where software is not patentable) probably doesn’t boost our confidence in it becoming a standard (and the idea of an ISO standard that is patented is outright absurd anyway in my view).
Either way, kudos to SABS and the government for doing it right and not caving to the big M.