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Strange corners of the Web
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| Let's start with the "Wet Paint Body Notes" blog, newly created, with only
| three posts. One is called "Microsoft Gets Foot in Mass. Office Door". It
| starts:
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| In what could be a coup inwardly favour of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and a
| biff to the friendly wellspring league, the stipulate of Massachusetts
| personal added Microsoft's Office Open XML norm to its document of give
| your declaration standards it will allow for elected representatives
| exploit.
|
|
| This is a strange kind of English. It almost seems like a poor translation,
| or even a poor machine translation, of a document written in another
| language. But if you poke around a little, you find the this blog post is an
| unattributed garbled derivation of a 2007 article in Linux Insider. Not only
| was the original article in English, the reposted version truncates the
| article, posting only the first few paragraphs.
|
| So what's up with that? There are no banner ads or other obvious sources of
| revenue on the garbled version of the article. It is not a link farm. In fact
| it has no outgoing links. So why did someone bother?
|
| Another example. The blog "75Software-News48" has an new article "Microsoft
| shows support for ODF", posted just two weeks ago, with the intro:
|
| Amid organization hassle surrounded by wish of interoperability,
| Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) protected Thursday announced the discovery of
| the Open XML Translator Project. The overhang will fry in the air
| permitted software to allow Word, Excel and PowerPoint to knob documents
| in contrary technology format.
|
|
| Again, this reads like it is a poor translation from another language. But
| look further and you can find that the original article is actually in
| English, from a 2006 TechNewsWorld article.
|
| Again, no obvious intent here. It isn't a link farm, and there is no evident
| source of revenue. It isn't informative and it certainly isn't timely. So why
| did they do it?
|
| One more example this time a LiveJournal blog called "All Microsoft", again
| newly created, with a post called "Ecma Approves MS Office Format, IBM
| Dissents". It opens:
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| Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Open XML bureau software format, broad of via
| the tech giant to chase near the Open Document Format (ODF), cleared a
| standards hurdle this week, successful approbation from the Ecma global
| standards article.
|
|
| Same modus operandi here. Original source, unattributed, is from a 2006 Linux
| Insider article.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/02/strange-corners-of-web.html
Related:
What happens after the BRM?
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| Microsoft tries it with little success. It invests into European
| interoperability lobbying, sponsors a lot of conferences but thus is forced
| to spearhead the call for Interoperability — and "choice".
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-40134/what-happens-after-the-brm
Microsoft Hires Programmer to edit Wikipedia Entry For OOXML
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79130/index.html
Portugal will send Microsoft to the BRM
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| Microsoft, as president of the Portuguese Technical Committee, is already
| controlling who will be at the BRM for Portugal. The Head of Delegation will
| be... Microsoft!
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-27501/portugal-will-send-microsoft-to-the-brm
IBM is still locked out of the Portuguese OOXML meeting
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| In spite of various communications, we [IBM] are still locked out and will
| not be allowed to participate. Microsoft will be there, as well as a special
| Microsoft guest, as will various Microsoft business partners, and others.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1755
Microsoft's Stephen McGibbon to represent Ireland at the BRM?
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| There are rumors circulating in Ireland that Microsoft's Stephen McGibbon
| might be part of the Irish delegation to attend the BRM in Geneva. Microsoft
| is already controlling the Portuguese delegation, you can expect that they
| will control half of the table at Geneva. O'MyGod!
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-29606/microsoft-s-stephen-mcgibbon-to-represent-ireland-at-the-brm
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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