____/ Matt on Friday 29 February 2008 01:07 : \____
> 7 wrote:
>
>> I wonder if micosahft can be criminally prosecuted for
>> subverting a standards organisation and fined in the EU for such
>> a breach of the peace and rules of conduct.
>> If anything these sleeping regulators drunk on tax payers money
>> shoud be out there in force and threating to fine every illegal
>> activity that has been noted now that they have been widely
>> tipped off on numerous occasions about rampant corrupt
>> practices by micoshat at these standards meetings.
>> As far as I know, you can be thrown out a building
>> for a minor violation such as smoking. But these
>> guys are smokin money and no one wants to do anything?
>> Are the EU politicians becoming just as corrupt and need
>> to be replaced?
>
> Microsoft's packing of the ISO committees has got to be part of the
> motivation behind the recent EU fines against MS.
No, it's separate. That will come too. They still investigate, so expect more
fines.
> Similarly even if they are able to push OOXML through as a standard, a
> lot of government IT pros everywhere are going to recognize it as a
> crock, grow more distrusting of everything MS offers, and turn more
> toward ODF and FOSS. It would also lead to reform of ISO processes.
It's looking grim for OOXML because of increased intervention (Bush doesn't
care, but the EU and other nations in the east certainly mind). Microsoft
exposed itself to too much criticism because it abused the process like
nobody's business.
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