Geneva. Day Zero
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| I had some time to burn, so I checked out the location of the hotel of the
| other Malaysian delegates, and was surprised to find that not only were they
| there waiting in the lobby, but I found the Microsoft Malaysia lackey in the
| same hotel sitting in the same lobby schmoozing the delegates. How come I
| didnt get the memo?
|
| Anyway, his trip was wasted because this constant pressure by Microsoft on
| the Malaysian delegates are starting to take its toll. I mean how creepy is
| it to find this guy who has traveled the width and breadth of the Malaysian
| Peninsular with the intention of 'updating each other' and now to find him
| halfway across the world in your hotel lobby?
|
| Gah, stalker.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/02/geneva-day-zero.html
People warned about this. The abusive monopolists can't just let things be, not
even in a secretive meeting where the public and the press are blocked out.
Related:
Hot stuffin' in Greece?
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| After the voting of the Greek HoD you may ask why the votes were 14 in total,
| when the organisations appointed to the committee are just 12. That's only
| the latest of the magical wonders around OpenXML.
|
| [...]
|
| New voting members are joining the committee at the last minute:
|
| However, during the discussion, the representative of the Information
| Society showed the fax he had received, to which was attached the
| decision 19103/08 of the ELOT administration, dated 1 February 2008,
| which modifies the composition of the Committee by adding four new
| organisations: the Ministry of Education, two departments of the Ministry
| of Economics, and Information Society S.A. The representatives of NTUA
| had not been informed of this decision.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-42845/hot-stuffin-in-greece
OOXML/ODF: Just One Battlefield in a Much Bigger War
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| In a future world of all-cloud devices, the notion of a desktop Linux, like
| the notion of a desktop Windows or OS X machine, would be very different.
| Certainly of these three operating systems, Linux has the best reputation and
| capability for going small and fast.
|
| Even if this sci-fi-sounding world does not come to be, I am increasingly
| convinced that the next big new market in IT is the cloud sector--a sector
| for which Linux (and ODF) is already well-suited.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-02-22-021-26-OP-BZ-SV
Bam! Comical Creese debunks OpenDocumentFormat Alliance
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| You are free to inspect the irregularities website that documents few cases
| reported by the online press and blogs. We got much more reports on an
| informal base per email. The Swedish single employee story is not credible,
| actually committee stuffing took place in Sweden.
|
| On loopholes, that’s another subjective call, but since Microsoft
| competitors managed to establish control over a standards initiative with
| potentially dire consequences for one of Microsoft’s most important
| business domains, we are not surprised that Microsoft (legitimately,
| albeit with what some consider to be poor standards etiquette) exploited
| the loopholes. As we noted, we assume ISO will update its procedures to
| eliminate the loopholes in the future.
|
| What?
|
| Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a standards
| initiative…
|
| What?
|
| Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a standards
| initiative with potentially dire consequences for one of Microsoft’s most
| important business domains, we are not surprised that Microsoft …
| exploited the loopholes.
|
| ???
|
| but since Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a
| standards initiative with potentially dire consequences for one of
| Microsoft’s most important business domains, we are not surprised that
| Microsoft (legitimately, albeit with what some consider to be poor
| standards etiquette) exploited the loopholes.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41447/bam-comical-creese-debunks-opendocumentformat-alliance
Microsoft’s secretive standards orgs in Former Yugoslavia
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| Croatian laws keep its national body’s votes secret, so the only way for the
| Croatian public to find out how the process went would be if a board member
| illegally leaked information out of CSI. This is, of course, unlikely to
| happen. And the Serbian national standardization body is not officially
| formed, so those two votes were easy for Microsoft, and probably not only
| ones around the globe.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092407-ooxml.html?page=1
Microsoft Tech Ed 2007: OpenXML
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| He was asked "Why did Microsoft push OOXML through the "Fast Track" process
| instead of the standard ISO process? Wouldn't they get less resistance than
| faced now?"
|
| His response was very frank: "Office is a USD$10 billion revenue generator
| for the company. When ODF was made an ISO standard, Microsoft had to react
| quickly as certain governments have procurement policies which prefer ISO
| standards. Ecma and OASIS are 'international standards', but ISO is the
| international 'Gold Standard'. Microsoft therefore had to rush this standard
| through. Its a simple matter of commercial interests!"
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