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[News] Corbet's Report from Australia's Linux Expo, Microsoft Sends Shill from AU

  • Subject: [News] Corbet's Report from Australia's Linux Expo, Microsoft Sends Shill from AU
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:31:53 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
linux.conf.au 2008

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| There is a new threat out there which we should not underestimate: the push 
| to force copyright enforcement duties onto ISPs. This effort takes two forms: 
| getting "infringers" disconnected, and requiring ISPs to filter data passing 
| through their networks. There are a lot of problems with either approach, but 
| that is not stopping the industry (and others, such as anti-porn crusaders) 
| from pushing hard for ISP responsibility. This is a fight to watch.     
| 
| So what should the free software community do? Not much, says Kimberlee, 
| except to keep coding. The production of good code brings us allies with 
| money, and that's what we're going to need. As long as we are successful, 
| people will go out of our way to protect us. Keep doing what we do, and 
| things should come out OK.     
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http://lwn.net/Articles/267870/

And it's confirmed that Microsoft will send a Microsoft shill

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. 
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;445400562;fp;16;fpid;1


Recent:

How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style

,----[ Quote ]
| 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.    
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958


Related:

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


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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