On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:25:07 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <zydk2t45rc1s.1kwmi5mbwqq3p.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Compare:
>>
>> Microsoft votes for ODF in the ISO.
>> Sun and IBM mount massive campaigns to discredit OOXML.
>>
>> Microsoft works with the State of Mass to meet their requirements, not
>> doing anything to prevent or influence ODF usage.
>> Sun and IBM work with the State of Mass to "railroad" Microsoft out of
>> consideration, even after they jump through all the hoops put before them.
>>
>> ODF proponents characterize Microsofts reaction to anti-OOXML rhetoric as
>> trying to "sabotage" ODF adoption. In their minds being Pro-OOXML means
>> you're anti-ODF, when nothing could be further from the truth.
>>
>> Get it through your head, Roy. Microsoft doesn't care about ODF. They're
>> not against it. They're not for it. They just don't care. The inverse
>> cannot seem to be said for ODF proponents.
>
> And what about IBM people who are paid to promote ODF putting up blogs
> spreading incorrect information about OOXML? Funny how Roy never has a
> problem with that (indeed, he rushes to repost the incorrect
> information).
Nor does he notice the "irregularities" with ISO committed by IBM and Sun,
such as how the IBM representative to the German ISO NB also, somehow,
being a representative for Kenya, and effectively writing Kenya's entire
ISO response.
Yeah, that's right. IBM, a fierce competitor to OOXML with strong monetary
conflict of interest, completely wrote the Kenyan National Body's response
to the ISO for OOXML. And the author wasn't even Kenyan.
Or how about this:
http://www.ictstandardization.com/news/200704/article20070406.html
"The comments written by several of the national bodies...are 100%
identical," said an official involved in the work, implying companies are
lobbying policy makers hard behind the scenes. "It is rather strange that
countries that have hardly shown up are now filing pages of comments," he
said.
And yet, that is precisely what IBM and Sun have been accusimg Microsoft of
doing, yet THEY were doing it months before.
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