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Re: ISO to announce Microsoft Open XML result Wednesday

____/ Rick on Tuesday 01 April 2008 23:24 : \____

> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:56:03 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> ____/ Rick on Tuesday 01 April 2008 11:08 : \____
>> 
>>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:13:12 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ____/ Rick on Tuesday 01 April 2008 02:16 : \____
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:09:53 +0000, Matt wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL3019918720080331
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ISO to announce Microsoft Open XML result Wednesday Mon Mar 31,
>>>>>>> 2008 1:14pm EDT
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Organization for
>>>>>>> Standardization (ISO) said it would reveal on Wednesday whether
>>>>>>> Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) had won the support
>>>>>>> needed to have its document format made into a global industry
>>>>>>> standard.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> "Because ISO needs first to inform its worldwide membership of
>>>>>>> national standards bodies of these results, a press release on this
>>>>>>> subject will be issued on Wednesday, 2 April, 2008," ISO spokesman
>>>>>>> Roger Frost said in an e-mail message.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there really any doubt Microsoft will win?
>>>>  
>>>> Win /what/? Bad reputation? It has done this already, so why not go
>>>> for the jackpot.
>>> 
>>> I have no doubt OXML will become an ISO standard. It is the way of the
>>> world.
>> 
>> But at what /cost/? The US too could claim that nuking Japan had made
>> them a 'winner', but it never made them popular with the east.
> 
> Cost doesn't matter at the moment. As long as MS can maintain its
> monopoly power until it gain control another market, they don't care.
> 
>> 
>>>> Experts in this opine that Microsoft may come to regret these crimes.
>>>> Other jokingly say that people should be jailed, which is probably
>>>> true, but Microsoft is above the law.
>>> 
>>> ... my point, exactly.
>>> 
>>> Maybe, just maybe, the world will publicly see Microsoft, and it's
>>> managers for what they are. I doubt it.
>> 
>> The least we can do is spread the word.
> 
> Unfortunately most people don't care. Still, maybe enough of the people
> that can change things do care.

You don't need to approach the 'broad population' (as in people who don't care
or understand), but only those who make decisions. It's effective enough.

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