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My Tinfoil Hat
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| Alex Brown, in ODF – OASIS and JTC 1 Get It Together, refers to those like
| me, who have been vocal in our disapproval of ISO’s handling of
| office-document standards, as the “tinfoil brigade” with a “crazed
| oppositional narrative”. He even provides an illustration of the use of a
| shiny silver fashion statement. Is this fair?
|
| [...]
|
| I’m Angry · I can’t help it. I’m actually quite idealistic and believe that
| collaborative work which transcends the boundaries of nations and enterprises
| has the potential to benefit individuals, governments, and businesses
| everywhere. I cannot give an honest and complete account of my feelings about
| the ECMA/JTC1 process without resorting to coarse language and direct
| accusations against certain parties whom I believe to have acted at best
| unethically. ¶
|
| For the purposes of this little essay I will for obvious reasons restrain
| myself. I will, however, offer two assertions:
|
| * In the context of the process that led to the existence of ISO/IEC
| International Standard 29500, it is reasonable to be angry.
| * It is not reasonable to draw conclusions about the rights and wrongs of
| a complex and important issue, in which billions of dollars are at stake,
| based on who’s being polite.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/16/My-Tinfoil-Hat
Phipps: "I agree with Tim; Alex Brown's analysis is cavalier in the omission of
the rest of the industry context around the gaming of JTC1, to the point one
has to ask oneself why."
Related:
New doubts about ISO's fast-track standardisation of Microsoft OOXML
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| An internal document of the International Standards Organization (ISO) that
| found its way late last week on to the Wikileaks whistle-blower platform
| raises further questions about the choice of a fast-track certification for
| Microsoft's OOXML document format. The paper, by Joint Technical Committee
| No. 1 (JTC 1) of the Geneva standards organization, which dates back to July
| 2007, says the fast track procedure chosen for certifying Microsoft's
| document format is only intended for the acceptance of unaltered standards
| and that a standard not accepted in its original form, while not to be
| regarded as "2nd class" or illegitimate, should be put through the normal
| five-stage standardisation process, should necessary corrections be
| identified in advance. The fast-track process, it says, is intended for
| making changes to an original draft.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/New-doubts-about-ISO-s-fast-track-standardisation-of-Microsoft-OOXML--/111065
Puppet countries leaves P membership
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| Microsoft Puppet countries are leaving the P membership. Lebanon, Turkey,
| Cyprus, and Trinidad & Tobago have already dropped out. All those countries
| voted Yes without comments to OOXML.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-59702/puppet-countries-leaves-p-membership
Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”
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| 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
Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
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| 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.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777
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
Software wars
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| Allegations of committee-stuffing, the outcome of votes overridden by
| political appointees, a final decision that many involved consider tainted:
| this may sound like a discredited election in some third world country. But
| it is actually a description of an ugly fight over international technical
| standards that wrapped up this week. Microsoft came out on top, but at the
| cost of tarnishing its reputation and the credibility of an important
| back-room process that oils the wheels of many global industries.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fc9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworlduk.com%2Ftool
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