[Stalking, harassing, cheating, masquerading. Sadly, the EC won't investigate
outside Europe.]
Doug Mahugh goes Malaysia
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| Some people change their gender. Doug Mahugh quickly changes hats.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-48280/doug-mahugh-goes-malaysia
See the comments here:
[Bruce Perens:] The Lengths They'll Go To
http://technocrat.net/d/2008/3/21/38019
The Elephant in the Room - with a calling card.
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| But to pass off a foreigner as a Malaysian organisation's representative?
| That's really stretching it, dudes. It's not as bad as having someone from
| Senegal representing another country, but it's still not particularly ...
| appropriate.
|
| [...]
|
| Which is also why there was an uneasy silence when Doug came back into the
| room to remove his computer, and he gruffly said, "I think it's best that I
| leave." I thought that was noble of him, and a great way to exit with
| whatever dignity he had left. I don't think he would normally bend his ethics
| to represent an organisation's national branch which he does not belong nor
| contribute to, but we must all understand, that employees at Microsoft are
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| all facing a really stressful time now.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
| They are fighting like their jobs depend on this, and unfortunately for
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Microsoft as a brand, they are killing themselves. Bending their morals,
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| burning their bridges which they have built so long and hard over the years,
| and hurting so many people and organisations over this silly matter of a File
| Format.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/the-elephant-in.html
Indeed, their brand tanked, according to a very recent study (down from ~11 to
50 something).
Can I Have A Light, Doug?
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| Here goes:
|
| 1. Doug, you are claiming that you wanted a technical debate with YK and
| yours truly. You never contacted us prior to the PIKOM meeting and never
| told me that you would be present at TC4. How can you claim that you
| wanted a technical debate when you never bothered to get in touch with the
| people you wanted to debate with? Your logic simply does not compute[4].
|
| 2. Your blog post says "they threw me out before the meeting started".
| Well, no shit sherlock. If you turn up at a meeting without giving due
| notice of your nomination as an alternate representative of IASA, you
| really can't be surprised if they weren't too happy, eh? There are proper
| processes to follow in Malaysia's standards body and IASA flagrantly
| violated them.
|
| [...]
|
| There you go. I'm not going to pursue this any further (but Doug, do feel
| free to write another scathing post, I've got /dev/null all prepped up and
| ready here). I just felt folk reading Doug's blog and OpenMalaysiaBlog should
| be able to see this from another perspective. Specifically mine. Either that
| or this is just another excuse for more sandiwara (translation: drama).
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/can-i-have-a-li.html
Doug Mahugh really dislikes me. Boo hoo.
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/doug-mahugh-rea.html
Read these items if you want to see what a filthy monopolist you have here.
Yesterday:
The Pikom Meeting About Microsoft's OOXML ... No! (bangs the table) Ecma 376!
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| Doug noted that the guys on the opposite side of the table from Microsoft
| (and (BANGS hand on table!) Ecma!) did not discuss any of the 23 comments
| made by Malaysia for the BRM ... and he's right, we didn't. Again, speaking
| for myself, prior to the meeting, I was sceptical that the "pro-OOXML" gang
| would actually just concentrate on that. This was mainly because I didn't
| know who would be attending on their side. I certainly did not expect that
| Microsoft would bring Doug Mahugh, Oliver Bell, Dave Welsh and (BANGS hand on
| table!) Jan van de Veld, former Sec-Gen of Ecma International. I fully
| expected Microsoft to apply the Chewbacca Defense strategy, and therefore
| figured that I must concentrate on my own Wookie-based defense.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/the-pikom-meeti.html
Related:
Dissecting the "Malaysian Halal Hub Open XML System"
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| So is it Malaysianising Microsoft, or is it Microsofting Malaysia?
| Microsoft's paranoia and drive to make MSOOXML an international standard may
| just be its own demise.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/01/dissecting-the.html
Malaysia warms to OOXML ... ?
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| With great "wins" like this, I always wondered why the Microsofties did not
| trumpet these case studies of wonderful "industry acceptance" of MSOOXML any
| louder? Its a gold-mine to announce that independent system vendors have
| wholly adopted their spanking new specification? This is further proof that
| ISO should ratify MSOOXML immediately with this worldwide support.
|
| So is it "Well done, Microsoft Malaysia?" or is a timebomb just waiting to
| explode ala Sweden?
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/01/malaysia-warms.html
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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