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Re: [News] Microsoft OOXML: Fail

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:14:49 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 10 March 2008 10:55 : \____
> 
>> Jesper Lund Stocholm <jls2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>> news:3l5fa5-q6f.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxx:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:21:44 -0800,
>>>>  Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> In article <i6b3a5-o6n.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>>>  Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> But would you refuse to allow the meeting to be recorded and
>>>>>> broadcast?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's hard to say, because it would have been so weird to have someone
>>>>> want to.  It probably would have come down to whether or not any of
>>>>> the attendees objected.
>>>>>
>>>> Unless I missunderstood Mr Stockholm, it was not permitted.
>>> 
>>> Well, it was not discussed, as far as I remember. The first thing (after
>>> the first break) the Convener did the first morning was to say that we were
>>> not allowed to take pictures in the room since some delegates were not
>>> happy to see pictures of them on the internet.
>>> 
>>> There was no objections to this.
>>> 
>>> PS: My Surname is without a 'k' :o)
>>> 
>> 
>> Which is a strange ruling.  Why not say /which/ delegates object , say,
>> and determine that their pictures may not be taken, but anyone else's
>> can?
>> 
>> I've *never* heard of any such ruling in any meeting I either attended
>> or chaired in ETSI, ITU-T, ITU-R, Intelsat, Linux Foundation, or
>> anywhere else.  Furthermore, I doubt that it could even be held to be
>> valid.
>> 
>> It sounds more like people are trying to cover their tracks, to me.
> 
> Yes, indeed. And with all due respect, Mr. Stocholm, as a Microsoft partner in
> a Linux NG, is hardly worth responding to. The Microsoft partners who
> subverted the process just don't like to be named (and shamed). People who
> Google them find out how they screw their country and it's easier when they
> have names.
> 
> The partners serve Microsoft, their paymaster. They don't serve their country.

You're a nut Schestowitz.

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Moshe Goldfarb
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