Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft lobbyist using TBT for legal threats
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> | Jan van den Beld, who was promoting OpenXML at the Geneva BRM for
> | CompTIA, a well know Microsoft lobby group, is using the Technical
> | Barriers to Trade WTO treaty for legal threats to governments:
> |
> | He also advised governments against mandating just one electronic
> | document standard
Then he has failed.
Historically, a standard can be mandated for anything and if different
implementations exist there can be no legal challenge.
Its micoshaft that better go watch out with their corruption
and use of lobbying and dubious mis-use of lawyers.
Governments too have lawyers and they can be very fierce
when turned on micoshaft corporation and its assets.
> as it may run foul of World Trade Organization
> | policies and open themselves to possible legal challenges. "One of
> | the big concerns of WTO is that you should not use standards as a
> | barrier to trade," he said.
> |
> | "If a government enforces [use of just one standard], that would
> | mean the whole country is not allowed to use OpenXML. Then, they
> | could get into a very difficult legal situation as they can be
> | challenged legally," opinioned van den Beld.
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> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-52518
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