The Finnish Standards Association has suddenly terminated the
contract of Lassi Nirhamo, the new expert of the IT standardisation
team. Lassi Nirhamo spoke against the Microsoft OOXML standard when it
came up before the Finnish Standards Association.
The CEO of the
Finnish Standards Association, Pekka Järvinen said that the reason for
ending the contract is lack of trust. "Unfortunately, during the probation
period, issues came up, after which trust is not possible. I cannot comment
further than this." Järvinen told AP.
Nirhamo was not told the reason but
he lead the OOXML- meeting in Finland, where the meeting decided to back the
standard. He told the meeting he was against he standard and later
suggest that Finland should abstain from voting.