On Aug 30, 10:56 pm, alt <spamt...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:12:43 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Oh. I'm quite aware that this certification is nothing but a way for
> Microsoft to have their closed protocols certified as an open standard.
> Anyone who has done their research into not only the standard, but also
> Microsoft's past bad behaviour (which resulted in them becoming a
> convicted monopolist) knows that this is a sham.
What is significant is that Microsoft is even attempting to get this
approval.
for almost 2 decades, Microsoft has simply imposed their standards.
Ballmer would say "x00 million PCs running Windows - we ARE the
standard".
The problem for Microsoft today is that there are about 300-500
million PCs
running OpenOffice. That makes ODF an entrenched standard that
Microsoft
will have a much harder time displacing.
Firefox has been installed in about 600 million PCs which means that
Microsoft's
"enhancements" are NOT the standard anymore. As a result, web site
authors
and administrators are now insisting that all sites be Firefox
compatible. They
can't afford to turn away business by popping up "We only support IE,
go away".
Too often, customers with real budgets, ready to make real purchases,
ARE
going away, and purchasing from competitiors.
> And the ISO is in serious danger of becoming a defunct standards
> organization by allowing this to happen.
ISO has set many standards on numerous items, but they got badly
burned
on the OSI stack. The protocol was so complex that a full set of
manuals cost
over $65,000 and that was just the PROTOCOLS. The standard was not
implementable. As a result, manufacturers and carriers reverted to
other
standards bodies such as CCITT and IETF, who published standards which
could be implemented easily, even by undergraduate college students.
Rex Ballard
http://www.open4success.org/bio
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