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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Eleven Trends From 2007
>>
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>> | 7. Microsoft loses the first round in the Office Open XML
>> | standardization efforts. Microsoft?s attempt to push through a
>> | super-complicated proprietary standardization for an OSI rubber stamp
>> | failed. However, there appears to be little doubt that OOXML will be
>> | standardized at some point?whether it?s in February 2008 or later.
>> | Microsoft will not back down, and eventually its ruthless lobbying will
>> | succeed.
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> So what we are saying is that standards have changed
> for standards bodies. Today's standards bodies
> can now be bought to pass on non-standards as standards if you pay the fee
> regardless of the fact that standards exist
> and these non-standards are being rubber stamped
> to compete with standards that have been
> establised through normal procedures.
>
>
>> http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20071215-13.html
That's exactly what has happened. Some major people in the ISO have left in
frustration and one even said that the worst dream has come
true -- "standardis(z)ation by corporation"! ISO is being 'violated' by
ECMAsoft; it's being raped, virtually.
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