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[News] LinuxCabal in Video (and That Other Mafia Exposed)

  • Subject: [News] LinuxCabal in Video (and That Other Mafia Exposed)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:27:23 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
An oral history of LinuxCabal (video)

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| In today's world of corporatized GNU/Linux and FOSS, it's easy to forget that 
| Linux was originally "marketed" by decidedly non-mainstream people, many of 
| whom are now ignored or forgotten.  
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http://www.linux.com/feature/124064

Speaking of CABAL (it's just an acronym by the way):

Web, crackdowns weakening Mafia's grip

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| When it came down to business, Cosa Nostra could always count on fear. No 
| more. In a rebellion shaking the Sicilian Mafia to its centuries-old roots, 
| businesses are joining forces in refusing to submit to demands for protection 
| money called "pizzo."   
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080113/ap_on_hi_te/italy_defying_the_mafia

It's true. There is also a Mafia in Redmond whose many crimes (e.g. OOXML,
briberies in Nigeria and elsewhere, inside trading, financial frauds, patent
extortion) are exposed thanks to the Web. It's killing it softly.


Yesterday:

Microsoft will turn Chile abstention into a Yes?

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| Despite the 217 comments tabled by Chile in September, the Microsoft puppets 
| are well active in the Committee and will vote this Tuesday to turn the vote 
| of the country from an abstention to a Yes. You can expect more of those 
| things happening until the end of March.   
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-35106/microsoft-will-turn-chile-abstention-into-a-yes


Related:

Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee

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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on 
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO 
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on 
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777


Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html


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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