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Re: [News] Microsoft OOXML: Fail

Sinister Midget <fardblossom@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On 2008-03-01, Jesper Lund Stocholm <jls2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:3515290.LKe7cgyNvA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>>> ____/ Jesper Lund Stocholm on Saturday 01 March 2008 10:30 : \____
>>> 
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>>>>> Microsoft needs to give up ... now. It's just getting embarrassing.
>>>>>> Their desperation is as palpable as their motives.
>>>>> 
>>>>> They seem to have bribed India. I'll post about it in the afternoon.
>>>> 
>>>> Ahem - did you miss how the Indians actually voted yesterday?
>>> 
>>> No.
>>
>> So could you please explain to me the correlation between the Indian vote 
>> yesterday and Microsoft bribing them? According to a comment on Brian 
>> Jones' blog [0] India disapproved 97.86% of the responses from ECMA.
>>
>> [0]
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/02/29/brm-is-done-time-to-sleep.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
> 
> Giving a bribe may be for "services rendered", but there's no absolute
> assurance you bought the vote until the vote is cast. What is the
> briber going to do to the bribeee, sue them for taking money and doing
> nothing illegal?
> 
> Ask Hillary about her super-delegates if you don't want to take my word
> for it.
> 

Attempted bribery is illegal.

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