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____/ Vaughn Bode on Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 05:50 : \____
> On Dec 11, 7:28 pm, Erik Funkenbusch <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:23:04 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> >| Seeing that I was nominated as one of the
>> >| Brazilian delegates, I want to make clear the
>> >| explanation about my absence: I had no money to
>> >| pay for my trip! (btw, since the middle of this
>> >| year I donât know what is âhave moneyâ for
>> >| anything â).
>>
>> Seems to me that if you can't do your job because you can't afford to make
>> the mandatory meetings, you should be fired.
>>
>> Would an employer accept "I couldn't come to work this week because i had
>> no money for gas"?
>
> Would the same go for Alex Brown? He didn't attend the meeting
> either.
>
> Well, if you can show up and vote for Microsoft's position, that is
> all that counts. All that "standards" stuff is just make-work smoke
> screen so the animals can feel important. The real standard will be
> handed out by Microsoft at the appropriate time.
>
> Did you see Rob Weir's blog (http://www.robweir.com/blog/
> 2009_10_01_archive.html)? Microsoft has been busy with the MSXML
> standard. At this time fixing the standard is in progress. "For
> example, in OASIS, a technical committee is able to approved and
> publish "Approved Errata" but these are restricted to changes that do
> not break conformance of existing implementations. Anything beyond
> that is considered a substantive change to the standard and requires
> review approval by the OASIS membership." "... the Microsoft-
> dominated WG4 appears to have overstepped the permissible bounds for
> corrigenda ..."
>
> In Rob's page you can see how the approved standard is getting fixed.
> "Oh lookey! Someone's thumb slipped and fat-fingered 'int' as
> 'byte'" Well, who hasn't had their hand slip like that? And gosh!
> "Over here! Golly, look at this 43 line misspelling" And who hasn't
> made a spelling mistake like that when typing up formal documents?
>
>> If you're going to participate in the standards process, you should, you
>> know, actually participate.. not make excuses.
>
> So Erik, if Alex is doing his job, who is he working for?
And more on this long item:
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| And the company Griffin Brown, of which the BRM convenor Alex Brown is the
| director, sent out a press release 13 March 08 celebrating the 10th
| anniversary of XML:
|
| "Recent moves by Microsoft to standardise its Office products around XML file
| formats merely confirms that most valuable business data in the future will
| be stored in XML. â Alex Brown is convenor of the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 Ballot
| Resolution Process, and has recently been elected to the panel to advise the
| British Library on how to handle digital submission of journal articles."
|
| [PJ: A bit of background on the British Library here, but the short version
| is that it uses Microsoft, was a co-sponsor of having Ecma put what is now
| OOXML on the fast track, and says today it is "pleased".] - No OOXML
`----
http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php
Also see:
Ecma - a case study for vendor capture
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| A small network of people of ECMA International dominated the whole ISO
| process around OOXML while technical experts of national ISO members were
| impeded by committee stuffing, rules bending and political intervention and
| the general restrictions of the revamped ISO/IEC fast-track process.
|
| [...]
|
| On the right you find a picture of Jan van den Beld, back then general
| secretary of ECMA international who received the 2000 pages from Microsoft
| represented by its employee Jean Paoli (center). Jean Paoli is probably best
| known for taking the Microsoft credit for the standardization of XML. The
| other person with the beard is Adam Farquhar from the British Library, chair
| of ECMA TC 45. You also find the picture on the right in Adam Farquhar's May
| 07 presentation which advocates for OOXML.
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http://www.noooxml.org/ecma-and-vendor-capture
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