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