On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:34:19 +0200, Hadron wrote:
> "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> More Irregularities in the OOXML ISO Process Surface
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | If you read about what happened there in that article, "OOXML in
>>> Norway: The | haywire process," your jaw will simply drop. I do think
>>> there is something | the matter with the ISO process if this is how it
>>> works. `----
>>>
>>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070827111019189
>>
>> Jesus - this is serious. I knew there was, as Groklaw puts it, some
>> "shenanigans" going on WRT OOXML, i.e. lobbying etc., but /this/ is
>> completely out of control! This is corruption in a very real sense,
>> right at the core of the standardisation process.
>>
>> I haven't really been following this process very closely, because
>> despite the importance of promoting ODF over OOXML, frankly the waiting
>> and the bureaucracy bores me to tears, but I'll be sure to scrutinise
>> every move from now on, you can be sure.
>>
>> I find it amazing that the Microsoft Mafia are putting so much muscle
>> into shoehorning this "standard" into society. Their cash cows must be
>> in need of a good feeding.
>
> Quick - blog it on your slated.org snore fest. Just by where you accuse
> MS of murdering children with their X-Box.
>
> Tell me, is there anything you like and enjoy? You don't do martial arts
> and have a gun license I hope?
Well, would you say that this OOXML voting process can even remotely be
considered "fair" or "balanced"? All you see is Microsoft using any means
at its disposal, including unethical and perhaps even illegal, to push an
"open standard" which isn't open at all, doesn't deserve the
qualification "standard", contains numerous shortcomings and even
outright errors, and only serves to perpetuate its own desktop dominance.
This is evil, plain and simple.
Richard Rasker
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http://www.linetec.nl/
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