____/ Linonut on Friday 22 February 2008 22:51 : \____
> * Jesper Lund Stocholm peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Linonut skrev:
>>> * Jesper Lund Stocholm peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>> So you are not worried about interoperability with arbitrary binary
>>>> blobs from Sun-made software?
>>>>
>>>> ... but you are worried with those from Microsoft?
>>>>
>>>> That just makes so much sense ...
>>>
>>> Let's just say that Microsoft has much more mass to ram that crap down
>>> the throat of the populace.
>>>
>>> Makes perfect sense to me, given past history.
>>
>> Yeah - that's big companies for you. It took IBM just about two clock
>> cycles to "ram that crap" down into the unspecified hell of ODF
>> (config-item-set elements) in their Lotus Symphony when creating
>> presentations in ODF-format.
>>
>> The caveat is, that being able to store some custom binary data of
>> various kinds in a document is a fine and valid requirement for /any/
>> document producer - and that's why both ODF and OOXML allows this.
>>
>> --
>> Jesper Lund Stocholm
>> http://www.idippedut.dk
>
> Shouldn't you be getting ready for your meeting?
>
> http://www.idippedut.dk/post/2008/02/Santa-Clause-is-coming-to-town.aspx
>
> Now there are only a few days until I jump on a plane and head South
> to Switzerland, Geneva for the ISO/IEC SC34 Ballot Resolution Group
> Meeting, amongst laymen known primarily as "The BRM meeting". I
> cannot get my head around if I am exited or worried about the outcome
> of the meeting ... thinking primarily about the enormous workload
> expecting us down there. We will have to work through about 1000
> unique disposition of comments from ISO/IEC editor Rex - scattered
> over about 3500 comments in total. It's a daunting task indeed - not
> least for BRM convenor Alex Brown from BSI UK. Adding to this
> workload is the small addition, that we will be 120 delegates dealing
> with it.
>
> . . .
>
> I really hope that the delegates opposing OOXML do not try to
> paralyze the BRM with a massive DOS-attack on the process. . . .
> I hope this will keep the lid on most of the fanatic out-bursts.
Yes, the delegates have already been warned not to speak to 'trolls' like Vint
Cerf. True. ECMA and Microsoft are organisaing a secret party in Geneva and
much like the Bilderbergers they want to keep it quiet.
Give me a few minutes and I'll share with you the latest story about the
corruption among delegates in Australia and maybe Greece too. There is some
last-minute stuffing (wasn't /that/ predictable?).
--
~~ Best of wishes
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