Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 03 July 2008 16:44 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>> Antitrust Commissioner mentions tightening rules for standardisation
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>>>| Let's hope other ISO members responsible for the appeal made by 4 countries
>>>| are more clever then Mr Bryden when it comes to strengthen the ISO rules,
>>>| and especially rewriting the Fast-Track rules that were changed probably on
>>>| purpose for the OOXML process by ECMA ex-secretary general, Mr Van Den
>>>| Beld.
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> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-71668/antitrust-commissioner-mentions-tightening-rules-for-standardisation
>>
>> A proper investigation should take place here.
>
> The guy is a Microsoft lobbyist at CompTIA now. He implicitly threatens
> governments that snub OOXML. This just comes to show you what a corrupt body
> ECMA is (he was there before leaving to play more aggressively and blatently
> for Microsoft). About a year ago, asking hypothetically about multiple
> standards and their harm, he said "you are well paid, shut up."
>
>>>
>>> The Rat Pack:
>>>
>>> SC34 meeting in London will discuss OOXML (non-)future
>>>
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>>>| The next ISO SC34 meeting in London will discuss OOXML (non-)future. The
>>>| meeting will be hosted by the British Library, an ECMA member, supporter of
>>>| OOXML and advised by Alex Brown.
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>>>
> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-71612/sc34-meeting-in-london-will-discuss-ooxml-non-future
>>>
>>
>> A gathering of the great and corrupt.
>
> Watch Alex Brown creating an account on the FFII network to do damage control
> in the comments.
>
Has anyone from eg., UKUUG considered a protest of some kind? It might
at least get some airtime and serve to highlight the corruption which
has gone on here, much of which is being paid for by the British
Taxpayer?
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