Coincidence, Conflict of Interest or Reward?
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| Apparently unrelated to OOXML, Microsoft, a Business Parter (both on the
| portuguese TC) and an Institute who has a prominent member participating in
| the portuguese TC allegedly as an individual, are opening a Microsoft
| Innovation Center in Portugal oriented to clients and companies. Probably
| some CRM with OOXML capabilities?
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| [...]
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| Microsoft, in partnership with JP Sá Couto and ISCTE, is about to open a
| Microsoft Innovation Center focused on developing software for companies and
| clients (probably reads CRM, and probably focused around MS-OOXML)
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| Hypothesis:
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| * Mere coincidence?
| * Proof of conflict of interest?
| * Reward for activity in CT-173?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-42182/coincidence-conflict-of-interest-or-reward
Related:
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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