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[News] Nuxified Opens Arms, Microsoft Front Group Hires FOSS Expert

  • Subject: [News] Nuxified Opens Arms, Microsoft Front Group Hires FOSS Expert
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:16 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Announcing The Nuxified 2010 'FOSS Clique' Revision

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| I am pleased to officially announce the 2010 
| revision of Nuxified.org, an alternative 
| outlet for all Free Open Source Software users 
| and fans. This revision proves that there's 
| still plenty of life behind this site and is a 
| token of my continued interest in maintaining 
| and improving it.
| 
| The slogan marking this revision is a "FOSS 
| Clique" translating perfectly to a "community 
| of people interested in Free Open Source 
| Software".
`----

http://www.nuxified.org/blog/announcing-nuxified-2010-revision-its-foss-clique

Open Source Expert Joins CompTIAâs Board

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| CompTIA â a large association serving the IT 
| channel â has longstanding relationships with 
| Microsoft and the traditional software 
| industry. But one of CompTIAâs new board 
| members could help to drive open source 
| solutions across the IT channel. Hereâs the 
| scoop.
`----

http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/01/19/open-source-expert-joins-comptias-board/

CompTIA is a "shill" (see below).


Related:

Embrace the Reality and Logic of Choice

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| 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.    
`----

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/04/embrace-reality-and-logic-of-choice.html


Multiple Standards according to ECMA

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| 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.
`----

http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49659/multiple-standards-according-to-ecma


The commercial value of ISO privileged access

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| 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!!!

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| 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
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