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[News] [Rival] Bruce Perens Explains How Microsoft Games the Standards Systems

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Microsoft: We were naivé about standards. No, really!

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| Microsoft was also present at IETF meetings around that time, and was 
| enthusiasticaly gaming the system. I remember one Microsoft attorney with 
| three assistants who were each feeding "audience" questions at the attorney's 
| direction.   
| 
| Organizations like Sun, which ran a large standards department, were 
| tremendously concerned with Microsoft's attempts to game the system at the 
| time.  
| 
| Microsoft is no newcomer to the standards business. Protests otherwise on 
| their behalf are insincere. 
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/23/44269


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[Tim Bray:] Life Is Complicated

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| I was sitting on the XML Working Group and co-editing the 
| spec, on a pro bono basis as an indie consultant. Netscape hired me to 
| represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued. 
| Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried 
| unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious, 
| deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and 
| took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked 
| there. It was a sideshow of a sideshow of the great campaign to bury Netscape 
| and I’m sure the executives have forgotten; but I haven’t.         
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
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