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[News] [Rival] On Microsoft's Usually Expensive Fight (Crimes) Against the Industry

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] On Microsoft's Usually Expensive Fight (Crimes) Against the Industry
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:56:17 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Bearing witness to POWER

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| What is the point is that we have collectively, globally, bore witness to an 
| awesome display of power by a single corporation. Awesome. Ruthless, even. 
| That Microsoft would fight in every nook and cranny, every possible avenue, 
| every committee, sub-committee, sub-sub-committee, upwards, downwards and 
| sideways to the committees, is simply astounding.    
| 
| That Microsoft can and did encourage the final decision makers to ignore the 
| wishes of their own standards bodies, majorities be damned, is further 
| affirmation of this awesome display.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| However, it was awesome. One company, Microsoft, against all comers, all over 
| the world. 
| 
| Simply, awfully, awesome.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/04/irregularities.html

RP retracts 'no' position in document format war

,----[ Quote ]
| Though obviously elated by the development, the local subsidiary of Microsoft 
| Corp. chose to highlight in its official statement the "transparent" process 
| which the BPS adopted in resolving the issue.    
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http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO20080401120787.html

*LOL* Transparent? Like the secret meetings and the briberies?

"I’m thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. ...
they should do a delicate dance"

                --Joachim Kempin, Microsoft OEM Chief


Related:

EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

,----[ Quote ]
| But with Steve Ballmer taking over as CEO, there was supposed to be a kinder, 
| gentler Microsoft - one that would play nicely with its competitors.  When 
| antitrust regulators in turn challenged this new Microsoft, it issued not 
| challenges to fight to the end to prove that it had done nothing illegal, but 
| statements promising to "cooperate fully."    
| 
| But at the same time, Microsoft is still a tough competitor.  As Microsoft's 
| Director of Corporate Standards Jason Matusow famously warned at his blog 
| last year:  
| 
|     Make no mistake; all parties are looking at the full picture to find 
|     strategies that will result in the outcome they desire. Provided - of 
|     course - that they do so within the context of the rules that apply to 
|     the process, this is exactly what one should expect to happen. It is 
|     going to be a very interesting next few months.    
| 
| Indeed, the months that followed proved to be interesting indeed.  Microsoft 
| said that some of its employees became over zealous, most flagrantly in 
| Sweden, where marketing assists were promised to several business partners as 
| incentives to join the national standards committee and vote for OOXM.   
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776


EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push

,----[ Quote ]
| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always 
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter 
| Quinn was by no means unique.  
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252


Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format

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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above 
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less 
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments) 
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI 
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for 
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.      
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html


Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling 

,----[ Quote ]
| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These 
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan, 
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think 
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed 
| through.    
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106

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