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[News] [FS] International Standards Cannot Be Written and Voted on By a Single Company

  • Subject: [News] [FS] International Standards Cannot Be Written and Voted on By a Single Company
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:42:51 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Standards, Virtual Worlds and The Big Question

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| That of course leaves open the same old Big Question: So who "wrote"
| the standards? A Creator in the traditional, religious sense? Some
| cosmic virtual world vendor? A standards committee (composed of who, or
| perhaps what)? I'll leave that question up to you. (But I will add a
| last grumpy question or two to whoever it was: if it was all
| discretionary anyway, why didn't you let me fly?  And isn't it about time
| to release Earth 2.0, maybe without Dick Cheney this time?)
`----

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070624083455242

Relevant to the OOXML debate. Microsoft is above the law and above standards
bodies.


Related:

Packing The Court At The ISO?

,----[ Quote ]
|      ...P member countries ('participating member' countries) sending 
|     representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of
|     their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.
| 
| [...]
| 
| How can they not see that OOXML (ECMA 376) is unwanted by anyone outside 
| of Microsoft? How about it Brian Jones? Are you really so desperate that 
| you have to resort to that? 
`----

http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/

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