However biased and compromized the standardization process of ISO/IEC DIS29500 may have been, it is great to see that at least in Poland these issues are being addressed and questions are being asked.

Agreed. As long as problems are truly addressed, not just blown off (“we can’t change anything now”) or blown off (“it’s the committee’s own fault”). This type of BS will have two major effects, both apparently intentional:It will freeze possible future participants in the standards process out, discouraging them from getting involved in a process that is clearly antidemocratic and opaque by intent; andIt will continue to heap professional (and lay public) ridicule on the standards process, making it easier for entrenched proprietary interests to maintain predatory power over the marketplace.

If the Forces of Light in national bodies like Poland can organize and take over/fix their NBs, then some good will have come of this debacle after all. But I wouldn’t bet the rent – or even a beer.

Compared to the completely rotten and corrupt voting
procedure the German DIN committee has conducted on
27 of March, where no questions have been asked
whatsoever, the aftermath of the Polish decision
looks promising.

Who knows … maybe one day the truth will come out
and Microsoft will have to pay a high price for
organizing the widespread subversion and corruption
of the standardization process. In this case, I’d
also like to see those individuals held to account,
who turned out to be corruptible.