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[News] [Rival] ISO is Dead (Surrenders to Crime), More Microsoft Crime Reported

Problems ahead:

OOXML Woes Continue as Norway Files Protest with ISO Relating to its Own Vote

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| OpenDocument and OOXMLOne of the things that most of us learn at our mother's 
| knee is that you shouldn't rush things.  If you do, you'll make silly 
| mistakes.  Mothers also tend to tell their children to play by the rules, but 
| some apparently listen better than others to that advice as well.   
| 
| The wisdom of the first truism was demonstrated most clearly during the 
| Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva, although its effects had been evident 
| throughout the entire Fast Track process.  In the latest evidence of the 
| other truism, the first formal protest has been filed with ISO over a 
| National Body vote.  The National Body in question is Norway, and the protest 
| has been filed by...(wait for it)...Norway itself.      
| 
| How can all of this be true in a country like Norway?  Elections this flawed 
| usually only occur in Florida. 
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080331114700984

Deadlock over OOXML

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| CONTROVERSY over the proposed Office Open XML standard forced Standards 
| Australia to abstain as international balloting concluded overnight. 
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23462870-15306,00.html

Consequences of crimes perhaps:

As the Linux star rises, it seems the Microsoft star is falling.

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| So while microsoft continues to fight an outmoded fight with outmoded 
| business tactics it will be washed out by the new wave of computing that is 
| fast approaching the consumer shore. I would advise you to get your Linux 
| water wings now and start learning to swim before you suddenly find that 
| either your pool has run dry or you are in deeper water than you think.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| As you can see in 2004 it was ranked 11th. Last year it dropped down to a low 
| of 59th. That is a very big drop over four years and especially significant 
| when other computer related companies have stayed relatively flat. It is also 
| significant that Linux started really making an appearance to the mainstream 
| public as a viable alternative and stable OS around four years ago.     
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/as-the-linux-star-rises-it-seems-the-microsoft-star-is-falling-23431

The 'win' Microsoft is likely to regret (just like the RIAA):

OOXML (DIS29500) Result: Approved

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| ISO is furthermore an irrelevance in technology standardisation.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/01/ooxml-dis29500-result-approved/

OOXML results in, ISO stalls

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| If Microsoft gets its technology approved, it will be a blow to internet 
| connectivity and issues of data ownership. They already refuse to comply with 
| web standards for their Internet Explorer browser and make using their 
| operating systems next to impossible, especially the newest version of 
| Windows, Vista. To assume they’d remain compliant with ISO regulations once 
| approved is ludicrous, this is, after all, Microsoft we are talking about.     
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/04/01/ooxml-results-in-iso-stalls/

Corruption continue to stand in the way of more competition. Not better
products, but corruption. The brand will subsequently sink (and stink)
further.


Related:

Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”

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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He 
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'  
| 
| [...]
| 
| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC 
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA 
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to 
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML, 
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …    
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation


Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html


Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee

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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on 
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO 
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on 
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777


Similar to RIAA tactics, which backfire:

Grandmother targets RIAA ‘investigators’

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| Taking a page out of Tanya Andersen’s book, Hurricane Rita survivor 
| Rhonda Crain is also targeting the RIAA practice of using
| unlicensed ‘investigators’ in its bizarre sue ‘em all marketing 
| campaign.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12674


RIAA faces serious piracy lawsuit

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| A lawsuit recently filed against the Recording Industry Assn. of America 
| could ultimately force the org to drop or dramatically change the way it uses 
| its principal weapon in the fight against online piracy, according to experts 
| and observers.   
| 
| The case -- filed in Oregon and asserting claims under the Computer Fraud and 
| Abuse Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act -- 
| details the RIAA's alleged use of "illegal and flawed" methods when 
| investigating people for downloading or swapping copyrighted songs without 
| paying for them.    
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117971146.html?categoryId=16&cs=1

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