On 10 Mar 2008 16:00:13 GMT, Jesper Lund Stocholm wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:22339124.QFVabcZGoU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> Conflict of interest
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| In the latest demonstration of how broken the process is the US V1
>>| technical committee voted on Friday to recommend approval of OOXML in
>>| a 17-4 vote, where Microsoft and no fewer than 11 of its business
>>| partners voted in favor of the specification. Am I the only one to
>>| see a major conflict of interest at play in this?
>
> So if you took away the 11 business-partners and Microsoft - it would still
> be a 5-4 vote in favour of OOXML
>
> :o)
Roy Schestowitz is a student of the "new math".
He is definitely on the leading edge of the technology but for some odd
reason his figures never seem to match anyone else's.
>> http://lehors.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/conflict-of-interest/
>>
>> Microsoft did the same in Denmark, with business partners like
>> Stocholm. He would try to deny this.
>
> Dear Roy, again you seem to go after me personally. Could you please be
> specific to what happened in Denmark? The last time I looked at the list of
> participating organisations in the Danish mirror committee to JTC1/SC34,
> there was a slight overweight of OOXML-opponents. Also - in Denmark the
> committe does not vote on the subject - it does not even give a
> recommendation to the Danish Nation Standards Body. We just deal with the
> technicalities of the proposed standard (be that ODF or OOXML or PDF etc)
> and make sure that the Danish interests are well taken care of.
You were at the meeting.
Roy Schestowitz has a "reliable source".
--
Moshe Goldfarb
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