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
Full disclosure
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| It is currently too easy for people to speak as if they were independent and
| use this pseudo-independence to influence uninformed people. Groklaw recently
| posted a story called “How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard -
| Microsoft Style” with evidence that Microsoft, for one, has made this kind of
| tactic an integral part of its business development strategy. It is hard to
| read this and not wonder about Rick Jeliffe’s continuous lobbying and Patrick
| Durusau’s recent change of heart. Especially when everything they say becomes
| Microsoft’s new ammunition in a matter of minutes.
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http://lehors.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/full-disclosure/
"Consultants: These guys are your best bets as moderators. Get a well-known
consultant on your side early, but don’t let him publish anything blatantly
pro-Microsoft. Then, get him to propose himself to the conference organizers
as a moderator, whenever a panel opportunity comes up. Since he’s well-known,
but apparently independent, he’ll be accepted - one less thing for the
constantly-overworked conference organizer to worry about, right?"
-- Microsoft
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
Related:
Need some data to support your cause? Hire an analyst
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| CIO.com raises an important issue about the integrity of research being done
| by industry analysts. Namely, if a sponsor pays for the research, do they get
| favorable treatment in that research?
|
| [...]
|
| I'm not suggesting that the research is corrupted. I'm just suggesting that
| it's hard to remove the taint of sponsored research. Just take a look at
| Gartner's "Hype Cycle" on open source, which is woefully inaccurate, probably
| in part because Gartner gets its information from the vendors who sponsor its
| research, not the customers who are buying into open source in droves.
|
| So, the next time you read a report, blog entry, or article, consider who
| pays the writer (including when reading this blog).
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9894178-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Microsoft's Sponsored OOXML Study
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| Today, Microsoft made available an IDC study about so-called open desktop
| file formats. It's yet another Microsoft propaganda effort, as a crucial
| format standards vote approaches.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/microsofts_sponsored_ooxml_study.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2tx9eo
Rick Jelliffe questions the "anti-OOXML mob"
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| Dog bites man vs. man bites dog
|
| Microsoft is used to play hard without any conservatism in terms of
| reputation. Other companies that were in a weaker market position adapted to
| a changing market environment and they are responsive to the public. The lack
| of care for reputation clearly plays in the hands of every campaigner. It's
| your favourite opponent because they will deliver you the lethal action you
| need to entertain your community. In a crime fiction about the Mafia no one
| is shocked by their killings because you expect it as natural. In the case of
| Microsoft this may result in the attitude of some bloggers to cry louder
| about foul play. I don't think this is the right approach but the economics
| of it is well understood.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-46838/rick-jelliffe-questions-the-anti-ooxml-mob
Standards Australia denies OOXML bias
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| Representatives from IBM, Google, Catalyst IT and Waugh Partners expressed
| their concern the appointment of Topologi director Rick Jelliffe to the
| delegation was not indicative of the wider industry view on OOXML
| standardization.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1735452258&rid=-50
The OOXML BRM and Australia: What happens next
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| Senior project manager at Standards Australia, Panjan Navaratnam, will head
| the delegation and shoulder the responsibility for all Australian positions.
| He will be supported in an advisory role by technical expert Rick Jeliffe.
|
| Despite some concerns surrounding the objectivity of Jeliffe, Standards
| Australia insists that its delegates are not participating as an agent of any
| personal or organisational viewpoint.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1392366014&rid=-50
Standards Australia defends Jelliffe he has never developed Microsoft products
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| Look at this press release from Standards Australia, it is really funny how
| they carefully weight their words:
|
| The article also incorrectly describes Rick Jelliffe as a ‘Microsoft
| developer’. While Mr Jelliffe consults widely to industry and government
| including Microsoft, he has never developed Microsoft products.
|
| Let's rewrite it like this to see if it changes something:
|
| Rick Jelliffe is not a ‘Microsoft developer’ as such. While Mr Jelliffe
| is being paid for consultancy work by Microsoft, he is not developing
| Microsoft products.
|
| Where is the money?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-42872/standards-australia-defends-jelliffe:he-has-never-developed-microsoft-products
Microsoft developer joins Aussie OOXML standards delegation
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| Last year Jelliffe was implicated in editing OOXML Wikipedia entries at the
| request of Microsoft. A public explanation is available on Jelliffe's blog.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;445400562;fp;16;fpid;1
How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style
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| In the section of an internal manual on effective evangelism, written in 1997
| by James Plamondon, Technical Evangelist, he lays out an elaborate series of
| steps to get Microsoft's platforms accepted as de facto standards. Among the
| steps lists are working behind the scenes with supposedly independent but
| actually pliable and supportive analysts and consultants.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push
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| But with Steve Ballmer taking over as CEO, there was supposed to be a kinder,
| gentler Microsoft - one that would play nicely with its competitors. When
| antitrust regulators in turn challenged this new Microsoft, it issued not
| challenges to fight to the end to prove that it had done nothing illegal, but
| statements promising to "cooperate fully."
|
| But at the same time, Microsoft is still a tough competitor. As Microsoft's
| Director of Corporate Standards Jason Matusow famously warned at his blog
| last year:
|
| Make no mistake; all parties are looking at the full picture to find
| strategies that will result in the outcome they desire. Provided - of
| course - that they do so within the context of the rules that apply to
| the process, this is exactly what one should expect to happen. It is
| going to be a very interesting next few months.
|
| Indeed, the months that followed proved to be interesting indeed. Microsoft
| said that some of its employees became over zealous, most flagrantly in
| Sweden, where marketing assists were promised to several business partners as
| incentives to join the national standards committee and vote for OOXM.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776
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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