Microsoft to buy ISO next week before Christmas?
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| "There is also a push by Microsoft and others to move ISO toward a "direct
| participation" model where corporations can participate in ISO directly,
| bypassing the national body mechanisms altogether. This would essentially
| turn ISO into a vendor consortium. So it will be interesting to see how this
| all turns out. To coin a folk aphorism, "In the land of the ugly queen all
| the mirrors have disappeared.".
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-31641/microsoft-to-buy-iso-next-week-before-christmas
National Boards to vote NO for OOXML (Office Open Xml) at ISO
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| Microsoft has set up a situation where many of the shortcomings and thousands
| of comments which need to be resolved at the BRN will not be addressed. They
| have closed this process as much as possible and have delayed National Boards
| from having adequate time to review proposed changes. They are setting
| themselves as heads of the National Boards in Portugal and Ireland. Many
| National Boards are still loaded and influenced by Microsoft Certified
| Partners and over a dozen counties have been lobbied by MS for the sole
| purpose of advancing Microsoft’s interests alone, as opposed to advancing the
| broader global community which ISO serves.
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http://fanaticattack.com/2007/national-boards-to-vote-no-for-ooxml-office-open-xml-at-iso.html
Microsoft seems to have essentially pulled out people from ISO, creating a
puppet state/regime instead. This is totality! Microsoft: your new
totalitarian government.
Unbelievable. Is the world blind to this abuse? Are politicians afraid to just
sue (or jail) those responsible for this fiasco?
Related:
Portugal will send Microsoft to the BRM
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| Microsoft, as president of the Portuguese Technical Committee, is already
| controlling who will be at the BRM for Portugal. The Head of Delegation will
| be... Microsoft!
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-27501/portugal-will-send-microsoft-to-the-brm
IBM is still locked out of the Portuguese OOXML meeting
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| In spite of various communications, we [IBM] are still locked out and will
| not be allowed to participate. Microsoft will be there, as well as a special
| Microsoft guest, as will various Microsoft business partners, and others.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1755
Microsoft's Stephen McGibbon to represent Ireland at the BRM?
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| There are rumors circulating in Ireland that Microsoft's Stephen McGibbon
| might be part of the Irish delegation to attend the BRM in Geneva. Microsoft
| is already controlling the Portuguese delegation, you can expect that they
| will control half of the table at Geneva. O'MyGod!
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-29606/microsoft-s-stephen-mcgibbon-to-represent-ireland-at-the-brm
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