____/ 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.
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http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573_p.htm
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| 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.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007082413463944
Corruption, manipulation, and the irrelevance of the ISO.
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