____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 01 April 2008 07:22 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Rick on Tuesday 01 April 2008 02:16 : \____
>>
>>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:09:53 +0000, Matt wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL3019918720080331
>>>>
>>>>> ISO to announce Microsoft Open XML result Wednesday Mon Mar 31, 2008
>>>>> 1:14pm EDT
>>>>>
>>>>> GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Organization for Standardization
>>>>> (ISO) said it would reveal on Wednesday whether Microsoft (MSFT.O:
>>>>> Quote, Profile, Research) had won the support needed to have its
>>>>> document format made into a global industry standard.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Because ISO needs first to inform its worldwide membership of national
>>>>> standards bodies of these results, a press release on this subject will
>>>>> be issued on Wednesday, 2 April, 2008," ISO spokesman Roger Frost said
>>>>> in an e-mail message.
>>>
>>> Is there really any doubt Microsoft will win?
>>
>> Win /what/? Bad reputation? It has done this already, so why not go for the
>> jackpot.
>>
>> Experts in this opine that Microsoft may come to regret these crimes. Other
>> jokingly say that people should be jailed, which is probably true, but
>> Microsoft is above the law.
>>
>
> I'm not surprised they're keeping this quiet. I wouldn't mind betting
> that Microsoft were unsuccessful, so ISO are using today, All Fools Day,
> in order to try to squeeze some more votes from somewhere.
>
> BSI, the British Standards Institute, has been corrupted.
That's for sure, but Stephane informed me about this over a month ago when he
saw the 'smoking gun' reappointment. That's when I said openly (in a site
even) that BSI had been corrupted... even before I knew about the change from
a NO to a YES (without any reason given).
How can a corrupted national body like BSI be brought to justice? Can stuffers
be sentenced?
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