Here's another half-baked Vole standard
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| There's bound to be several clever-clogs who possess a super-duper favicon
| icon generator that reduces the complexity of creating the file in the first
| place.
|
| But what ever happened to the icon generator that used to a be a standard
| part of Windows? Did it die out after 3.3? Why should you need a Visual Basic
| editor for such a simple task?
|
| The favicon is a neat idea but leaving the Vole to set the standard is
| proving a very bad idea completely.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/02/rant-suffering-favicon-blues
They couldn't just make it simple. favicon.ico is a classic. A bitmap must have
Microsoft-specific junk! Shades of the latest problems. They shoot themselves
in the foot.
The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISO
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| Instead, the U.S. delegation seems to have listened to companies like Google,
| which said Microsoft was making a mockery of the process; to Sun, which says
| Microsoft has broken the ISO process; and to the Linux Foundation, which
| called the company’s arguments “ridiculous.”
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?m=200803
XML spec editor: OOXML ISO process is "unadulterated BS"
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| ISO conducted a Ballot Resolution Meeting on Friday in an effort to address
| some of the technical issues that plague Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML)
| document format. Participants say that some very positive and meaningful
| changes were made to the OOXML specification, but many of the participants
| are frustrated with the large number of problems that didn't receive adequate
| attention as a result of time constraints.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080302-xml-spec-editor-ooxml-iso-process-is-unadulterated-bs.html
He's Canadian.
I'm being F* DDOSed BTW. Whoever does this, they knocked me offline 2 days ago
and once again at 12 today! And it turns out that Alex Brown’s site was down
yesterday as well (he ran the BRM).
Days ago I posted this:
Life Is Complicated
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| Those with long memories might suggest a parallel between Rick’s position and
| mine when in 1997, I was sitting on the XML Working Group and co-editing the
| spec, on a pro bono basis as an indie consultant. Netscape hired me to
| represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued.
| Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried
| unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious,
| deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and
| took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked
| there. It was a sideshow of a sideshow of the great campaign to bury Netscape
| and I’m sure the executives have forgotten; but I haven’t.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
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