Change of the guard
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| You don't have to convince press speakers and hired guns. But can you imagine
| that Jan 'the answer is always the same, you are well paid, shut up' van den
| Belt was hired for the comptia lobby after leaving as an ecma international
| general secretary? What an upgrade for the person to which the ISO jtc1
| rewrite was dedicated. Will standards people also let his collegue Mr.
| Lueders rewrite the essentials of international standardisation? Or could the
| Dutch nihilist provide some technical assistance? Fast-track Lueders
| interpretations to the ISO directives?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-58027/change-of-the-guard
If there's disgusting (and easily proven) shilling, this is it. Microsoft's
scientology-like cult -- an orgy of money, power and lies.
Recent:
Embrace the Reality and Logic of Choice
,----[ Quote ]
| Another neo-colonialist press release from Microsoft's CompTIA lobbying arm,
| this time inveighing against South Africa's adoption of ODF as a national
| standard. One way to point out the absurdity of their logic is to replace the
| reference to ODF with references to any other useful standard that a
| government might adopt, like electrical standards.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/04/embrace-reality-and-logic-of-choice.html
Multiple Standards according to ECMA
,----[ Quote ]
| On a Microsoft event in Portugal, called TechDays 2008, ex-ECMA and now
| CompTIA (Microsoft lobbyst group) member, Jan van den Beld explains how
| multiple standards come to be on ECMA
|
| [...]
|
| What does Jan van den Beld - former Secretary General of ECMA - have to say
| about multiple standards? He seems to be puzzled himself!
|
| Quote from his presentation:
|
| Q: Why do you want to have 5 [DVD related] formats? Do you still call that
| standardization?
| A: You are well paid. Shut up
|
| Check out the video at 4:10 and amaze yourself!
|
| This was on Microsoft Techdays 2008, in Portugal.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49659/multiple-standards-according-to-ecma
The commercial value of ISO privileged access
,----[ Quote ]
| Jan van den Beld 'sents love letters' to the ISO system and leaches out
| against parties who want to appeal.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-50865/the-commercial-value-of-iso-privileged-access
Return of the Living Dead - Brainless Attack on MoSTI - Part Deux!!!
,----[ Quote ]
| I dont know what the attraction is, but somehow we all love the morbid
| fascination of Zombies in action. First, Microsoft^H^H^H^H^HCompTIA hires Mr
| Jan van der Beld, Ex-Ecma Secretary General, to fly all the way here in KL,
| for an event supposedly about "good multiple standards". There he challenges
| us to find a better way to Fast Track large, immature vendor dependent
| specifications. The answer is of course: "Don't do it." Later on that same
| day, like a man possessed, he turns up at a PIKOM meeting only to rant and
| thump tables.
|
| Then today, in our fantastic broadsheet turned tabloid "The New Straits
| Times" features a "Comment" by our so called "cooler head" Datuk Dr Mohd
| Ariffin Aton entitled "Walking the Talk on neutrality policy". If you've
| forgotten about him, you may be forgiven, but he is or rather WAS the CEO if
| SIRIM Bhd.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/return-of-the-l.html
Former ECMA Sec. Gen challenges ISO/BRM critics to create a better process
,----[ Quote ]
| "If people say this whole ISO process is lousy, out of date and doesn't work
| anymore or is broken, I challenge anybody to make a new worldwide process,"
| van den Beld told PC World while in Australia working for the Computing
| Technology Industry Association.
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1518565063
And the award goes to... (top 10 worst Ecma responses)
,----[ Quote ]
| If there are awards to be given to categories of worst dispositions provided
| by Ecma in response to comments by National Bodies for the OOXML balotting on
| 2 September 2007, then the ODF Alliance's list of top 10 (plus 1 bonus!) is a
| good one. The categories are:
|
| 10. Worst Ignored Request
| 9. Worst non-Answer
| 8. Worst use of XML
| 7. Worst Introduction of Security Holes
| 6. Worst 'Back Door' Tactic
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/02/and-the-award-g.html
Give us the password!
,----[ Quote ]
| What is needed now is the public and unconditional access to the works of the
| TC 45. What is needed now is for the Ecma to give the password to their page.
| Give us the password!
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2007/12/13/give-us-the-password/
A Peek Behind the Ecma OOXML Curtain
,----[ Quote ]
| A particularly contentious issue has been whether Ecma is trying to make it
| as easy as possible, or is trying to make it as difficult as possible while
| still scoring PR points, for interested parties to view proposed dispositions
| of comments, and whether it does, or does not, have the latitude under ISO
| rules to be more transparent. The fairly opaque, and sometimes contradictory
| nature of those rules, has not made the debate any easier, and gives rise to
| the possibility of confusion, at best, and serious mistakes, at worst, as
| Pamela Jones pointed out at Groklaw this morning.
|
| The result is that there will be very little real data available to the
| general public until Ecma opens the curtains on January 19. And the import of
| what little data does become available is usually the subject of instant
| disagreement.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007121304552774
Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
,----[ Quote
| 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.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777
Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”
,----[ Quote ]
| 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
Former ECMA Sec. Gen challenges ISO/BRM critics to create a better process
,----[ Quote ]
| "If people say this whole ISO process is lousy, out of date and doesn't work
| anymore or is broken, I challenge anybody to make a new worldwide process,"
| van den Beld told PC World while in Australia working for the Computing
| Technology Industry Association.
`----
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1518565063
Government, NGOs 'turning to Linux'
,----[ Quote ]
| "It's extremely easy - basically anyone can install Linux now."
|
| Organisations such as the Shuttleworth Foundation, which help provide
| computers to underprivileged schools, use Linux instead of Windows to cut
| costs.
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http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?from=rss_IOLTechHome&iSectionId=2883&iArticleId=4366559
South Africa adopts ODF as a national standard
,----[ Quote ]
| The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) on Friday approved the Open
| Document Format (ODF) as an official national South African standard. The
| adoption of ODF by South Africa opens the way for the businesses and
| government to adopt ODF more widely in their processes.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2365
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