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Re: [News] EU investigating Microsoft's abuse of ISO standards body over OOXML

  • Subject: Re: [News] EU investigating Microsoft's abuse of ISO standards body over OOXML
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:53:09 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
> CNN reports:
[...]
> http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22872163.htm
> 
> It looks like the good work done here and elsewhere is exposing the 
> bad deeds far more rapidly than ever before.  With a normal company, 
> even the threat of the investigation would be enough to stop them
> from trying to further corrupt the ISO process, however, as we're
> talking about Microsoft, I very much doubt that they'll do anything
> other than drag the whole process out for as many years as possible.

Unfortunately I think you're right.

This investigation may not produce the results we hope for, but at the
very least it is yet more exposure of Microsoft's misdeeds, and that can
only be a good thing.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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