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____/ Linonut on Sunday 17 August 2008 15:39 : \____
> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> In article <3eyhrvagwf18$.s3w6hcfrhtlt$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
>> "Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Open Source freedom fighters whining again.
>>>
>>> So when does the "Boycott ISO" site go up Roy Schestowitz?
>>>
>>> With the proper Google seeding you should be able to generate a decent
>>> amount of hits on a site like that.
>>
>> The FUDsters lost. Here's something noted open standards advocate Rick
>> Jelliffe ...
>
> You lost me right there.
Rick Jelliffe is a paid Microsoft consultant that corrupted Wikipedia backed by
Microsoft's incentives that they approached him with. He has no morals.
"Consultants: These guys are your best bets as moderators. Get a well-known
consultant on your side early, but don’t let him publish anything blatantly
pro-Microsoft. Then, get him to propose himself to the conference organizers
as a moderator, whenever a panel opportunity comes up. Since he’s well-known,
but apparently independent, he’ll be accepted - one less thing for the
constantly-overworked conference organizer to worry about, right?"
-- Microsoft
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
Rick Jelliffe questions the "anti-OOXML mob"
,----[ Quote ]
| Dog bites man vs. man bites dog
|
| Microsoft is used to play hard without any conservatism in terms of
| reputation. Other companies that were in a weaker market position adapted to
| a changing market environment and they are responsive to the public. The lack
| of care for reputation clearly plays in the hands of every campaigner. It's
| your favourite opponent because they will deliver you the lethal action you
| need to entertain your community. In a crime fiction about the Mafia no one
| is shocked by their killings because you expect it as natural. In the case of
| Microsoft this may result in the attitude of some bloggers to cry louder
| about foul play. I don't think this is the right approach but the economics
| of it is well understood.
`----
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-46838/rick-jelliffe-questions-the-anti-ooxml-mob
Standards Australia denies OOXML bias
,----[ Quote ]
| Representatives from IBM, Google, Catalyst IT and Waugh Partners expressed
| their concern the appointment of Topologi director Rick Jelliffe to the
| delegation was not indicative of the wider industry view on OOXML
| standardization.
`----
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1735452258&rid=-50
ISO SQL editor Jim Melton's view on OOXML
,----[ Quote ]
| You've written 6000 pages of specification largely in secret (and, I
| understand, recently added over 1500 more pages) and given the world five
| months to read, absorb, understand, review, critique, and establish informed
| positions on it. Worse, whether it happened because of unreasonable methods,
| pure random chance, or genuine and unexpected interest, the fact that the
| size of the JTC 1 Subcommittee that was to vote on the document suddenly
| exploded gives the appearance that somebody was trying too hard to stack the
| deck...almost as though it wasn't really desired to have too much real
| review.
`----
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-48130/iso-sql-editor-jim-melton-s-view-on-ooxml
The OOXML BRM and Australia: What happens next
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| Senior project manager at Standards Australia, Panjan Navaratnam, will head
| the delegation and shoulder the responsibility for all Australian positions.
| He will be supported in an advisory role by technical expert Rick Jeliffe.
|
| Despite some concerns surrounding the objectivity of Jeliffe, Standards
| Australia insists that its delegates are not participating as an agent of any
| personal or organisational viewpoint.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1392366014&rid=-50
Standards Australia defends Jelliffe he has never developed Microsoft products
,----[ Quote ]
| Look at this press release from Standards Australia, it is really funny how
| they carefully weight their words:
|
| The article also incorrectly describes Rick Jelliffe as a ‘Microsoft
| developer’. While Mr Jelliffe consults widely to industry and government
| including Microsoft, he has never developed Microsoft products.
|
| Let's rewrite it like this to see if it changes something:
|
| Rick Jelliffe is not a ‘Microsoft developer’ as such. While Mr Jelliffe
| is being paid for consultancy work by Microsoft, he is not developing
| Microsoft products.
|
| Where is the money?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-42872/standards-australia-defends-jelliffe:he-has-never-developed-microsoft-products
Microsoft developer joins Aussie OOXML standards delegation
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| Last year Jelliffe was implicated in editing OOXML Wikipedia entries at the
| request of Microsoft. A public explanation is available on Jelliffe's blog.
`----
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;445400562;fp;16;fpid;1
How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style
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| In the section of an internal manual on effective evangelism, written in 1997
| by James Plamondon, Technical Evangelist, he lays out an elaborate series of
| steps to get Microsoft's platforms accepted as de facto standards. Among the
| steps lists are working behind the scenes with supposedly independent but
| actually pliable and supportive analysts and consultants.
`----
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push
,----[ Quote ]
| But with Steve Ballmer taking over as CEO, there was supposed to be a kinder,
| gentler Microsoft - one that would play nicely with its competitors. When
| antitrust regulators in turn challenged this new Microsoft, it issued not
| challenges to fight to the end to prove that it had done nothing illegal, but
| statements promising to "cooperate fully."
|
| But at the same time, Microsoft is still a tough competitor. As Microsoft's
| Director of Corporate Standards Jason Matusow famously warned at his blog
| last year:
|
| Make no mistake; all parties are looking at the full picture to find
| strategies that will result in the outcome they desire. Provided - of
| course - that they do so within the context of the rules that apply to
| the process, this is exactly what one should expect to happen. It is
| going to be a very interesting next few months.
|
| Indeed, the months that followed proved to be interesting indeed. Microsoft
| said that some of its employees became over zealous, most flagrantly in
| Sweden, where marketing assists were promised to several business partners as
| incentives to join the national standards committee and vote for OOXM.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776
EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push
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| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter
| Quinn was by no means unique.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252
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