__/ [ [H]omer ] on Monday 21 May 2007 20:56 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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>> | I simply can't believe that developers and or TC45 members from Apple,
>> | Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Intel, Microsoft,
>> | NextPage, Novell, Statoil, Toshiba, and the United States Library of
>> | Congress actually read the final document.
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> Of course they didn't. That is, after all, why Microsoft *produced* that
> 6000 pages of obfuscation in the first place.
I'm not sure about "holy hernia", as you referred to it the other day. Have
you seen the stack in the photograph? You'd need a tractor for the damn
thing. In India, the official were insulted by the bulk and refused to even
read the thing. Only one country among 19, IIRC, actually approved the
thing.
I smell corruption. Is it? Why yes it is!
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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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| [...]
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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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