____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 29 August 2007 08:19 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Wednesday 29 August 2007 02:27 : \____
>>
>>> On Aug 17, 3:19 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Now, watch Microsoft...
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> Watch Gobble.
>>>
>>> "The generals are always fighting the last war."
>>
>> Case of point (from last week. Ish..)
>>
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>>| Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of
>>| Defense ^^^^^^^^^^
>>| and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards
>>| Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on
>>| ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in
>>| competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.
>>|
>>| Gates reportedly picked up the phone when the last INCITS ballot failed by
>>| one vote to support Microsoft.
>> `----
>>
>> http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573_p.htm
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The government decided to vote together, and to follow NIST (Homeland
>>| Security had voted in favor of approval in the previous ballot), so DoD
>>| fell
>>| in line as well. NIST, you may recall, is an agency of the Department of
>>| Commerce (as I reported Steve Ballmer personally called the Secretary of
>>| the
>>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>| DOC to urge this result). GS1is a technical association.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007082413463944
>>
>> Corruption, manipulation, and the irrelevance of the ISO.
>>
>
> Actually, this goes further, this is direct manipulation of ANSI, too.
> I'm wondering if we should continue to work with ANSI if this is what's
> going to happen.
ISO is the new USPTO. I am no^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Ht so sure about ANSI.
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