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Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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| When a new 6,000 page DIS is submitted to JTC1 only one month after the
| publication of another standard (ODF) in the exact same space (XML document
| formats for office applications) and 19 NB's submit contradiction statements,
| and the JTC1 Secretariat's "best effort" is to hold no consolations with the
| NB's claiming contradictions, to hold no meeting, to make no attempt to
| resolve the question, then I believe that any NB would has a legitimate
| grounds for appeal on the inaction of JTC1 with regards to contradictions.
| There is no evidence that a "best effort" was made here to resolve the
| contradictions. Doing nothing is clearly incompatible with the required “best
| effort”.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/07/sed-quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodies.html
Recent:
Software wars
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| Allegations of committee-stuffing, the outcome of votes overridden by
| political appointees, a final decision that many involved consider tainted:
| this may sound like a discredited election in some third world country. But
| it is actually a description of an ugly fight over international technical
| standards that wrapped up this week. Microsoft came out on top, but at the
| cost of tarnishing its reputation and the credibility of an important
| back-room process that oils the wheels of many global industries.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fc9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworlduk.com%2Ftool
The ugliness of it all
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| Another way for Microsoft to attack ODF would be to oppose the
| standardization of ODF 1.2. They will use the same tactics they had with
| OOXML, but in the opposite direction. It will be funny to watch how the ISO
| and the national standards bodies will switch all of a sudden to a demanding
| stance on ODF 1.2, which will only be an iteration of an existing ISO
| standard. I am afraid we will witness such a shocking twist in the
| standardization bodies’ attitude.
|
| [...]
|
| Would you believe me if I wrote that I knew what’s in store after XPS? Let’s
| bet I know it. After OOXML shall come XPS. And once Microsoft will have
| locked the whole industry with its document formats, they will try to do the
| same with multimedia formats. Expect the future Windows Media formats, their
| proprietary video codecs to follow the same path. Their glue shall be
| Silverlight, which in turn rests on Windows Presentation Foundation and
| the .NET framework. The license shall be the famous OSP, effectively barring
| GPL implementations and leaving many other issues, such as the RAND mode
| applied on the covered technologies, in the shadows, but always as a critical
| factor to consider. Novell will follow, as usual, with incomplete and
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| patent-riddled implementations that you will only be able to safely use with
| Novell products.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/04/07/the-ugliness-of-it-all/
Related:
Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”
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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'
|
| [...]
|
| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML,
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation
Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html
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
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
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