____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 03 July 2008 16:44 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Antitrust Commissioner mentions tightening rules for standardisation
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>>| Let's hope other ISO members responsible for the appeal made by 4 countries
>>| are more clever then Mr Bryden when it comes to strengthen the ISO rules,
>>| and especially rewriting the Fast-Track rules that were changed probably on
>>| purpose for the OOXML process by ECMA ex-secretary general, Mr Van Den
>>| Beld.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-71668/antitrust-commissioner-mentions-tightening-rules-for-standardisation
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> A proper investigation should take place here.
The guy is a Microsoft lobbyist at CompTIA now. He implicitly threatens
governments that snub OOXML. This just comes to show you what a corrupt body
ECMA is (he was there before leaving to play more aggressively and blatently
for Microsoft). About a year ago, asking hypothetically about multiple
standards and their harm, he said "you are well paid, shut up."
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>> The Rat Pack:
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>> SC34 meeting in London will discuss OOXML (non-)future
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>>| The next ISO SC34 meeting in London will discuss OOXML (non-)future. The
>>| meeting will be hosted by the British Library, an ECMA member, supporter of
>>| OOXML and advised by Alex Brown.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-71612/sc34-meeting-in-london-will-discuss-ooxml-non-future
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> A gathering of the great and corrupt.
Watch Alex Brown creating an account on the FFII network to do damage control
in the comments.
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