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____/ Homer on Sunday 20 July 2008 00:50 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> SC34 meeting next week: yet another stuffed committee?
> [...]
>> Some of them, Jesper Lund Stocholm for instance, are Microsoft
>> partners and fans. This is a joke, right?
>
> No, this is the ISO branch of the Microsoft crime syndicate.
Hmm...Weird. I use the "syndicate" to describe this yesterday (but elsewhere).
Ben will be there at the meeting. I bet he was shocked when he found who /else/
would be there.
GL has some more details (sent this to her at the 90th minute):
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| ...Microsoft's not done until ODF won't run? By that I mean, run as it
| does. They are not meeting for nothing, in my opinion. It's not busywork.
| There is an agenda, no longer quite so hidden. It's the opening part of the
| effort to take over ODF control, I think, so Microsoft can make it less open,
| probably, so as to make buckets of money from it, without Microsoft having to
| actually be open. On that page on What is Rick Smoking?, you'll find a list
| of who was to go to the meeting of this advisory group, and a commenter
| says, "So a quick tally shows that there will be 25 participants, of which 12
| are Ecma TC45 members (as listed) or Microsoft employees (Brett Roberts, Dave
| Welsh, Jasper Bojsen, Kimmo Bergius, Shahzad Rana and Wemba Opota)."
|
| Get the picture? Is that who you want in charge of ODF?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080718170044877
It was malice all along, as predicated. Rick J, Microsoft's scrupulous paid-for
Wikipedia editor, is now attacking OASIS. This 'syndicate', as you call it, is
now trying to hijack and control ODF too.
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