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[News] Demonstration of a ISO/Microsoft Disaster from Start to Finish

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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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