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____/ High Plains Thumper on Thursday 09 October 2008 09:55 : \____
> Mark Kent wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz espoused:
>>> Peter Köhlmann on Wednesday :
>>>
>>>> Last thing I've heard was that MS has people working in other
>>>> countries, too...
>>>
>>> There is an interesting comment from Rob Weir, in reply to a
>>> question from WuMingShi, at
>>> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/10/wheres-rob.html :
>>>
>>> "There are several participants in SC34 who have had the stated
>>> goal of taking control of OOXML and ODF and maintaining them both
>>> in SC34 WG's. They've been quite open about this plan. The problem
>>> is that they are planning a future for standards that they neither
>>> own nor control nor have technical expertise.
>>>
>>> "This was an interesting goal when they first articulated this
>>> idea, around two years ago. However, now that we've seen that JTC1
>>> is easily corruptible, both at the NB, SC and administrative
>>> levels, that JTC1 is incapable of fairly carrying out its own
>>> Directives, and that in practice SC34 is now so dominated by
>>> Microsoft that we could consider it a fully integrated division of
>>> Microsoft Corp., this push toward maintaining ODF in SC34 is both
>>> naive and dangerous. It will not happen. Doing so would be a huge
>>> step backwards in participation,openness, transparency, in IP
>>> rights and in technical quality. Drain the swamp first, and then
>>> let's talk."
>>
>> I suspect that if MS were to wage real war against a small African
>> country, Erik F would find some way of justifying it. He shouldn't
>> even be in this group.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/06ae4971a59ac93a?
>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
> From: Erik Funkenbusch <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:09:42 -0500
> Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Steve Ballmer: Some Things Should Only Work
> in Windows
>
> [quote]
> [..] Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> > 3 Reasons Why The OLPC Project has Microsoft Running Scared
>
> Here's a reason why EVERYONE should be running scared.
>
> 1) Millions of NIGERIAN children with free PC's. There's a reason most
> of the 419 scams come out of nigeria, and now having millions of people
> with computers to run such scams will only make things worse.
>
> http://www.419eater.com/
> [/quote]
Eventually, Intel dumped some proprietary products there (sold at a loss) while
Microsoft corrupted Nigerian official/s.
Erik is, as usual, defending or at least taking the side of the criminals.
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