A Pre-BRM Miscellany
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| A quick update on the concurrent OFE conference. I just heard that Microsoft
| employees have now started registering for the conference, around 8 so far.
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| Interesting. So why exactly are all of these Microsoft guys in Geneva that
| week? None of them appear to be BRM delegates. To quote Doug Mahugh, "Wow. If
| this isn't an attempt to exert undue influence on the standards process, it's
| hard to imagine what is. Who are these people?"
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| Methinks that the OFE conference has forced Microsoft's lobbying team to
| decloak.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/02/pre-brm-miscellany.html
They have already engaged in illegal briberies (e.g. in Sweden).
Related:
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
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