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____/ Peter Köhlmann on Wednesday 08 October 2008 18:25 : \____
> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:18:05 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>> Spot the logic flaw.
>>
>> Supposedly, Microsoft has "stuffed" the US SC34 committee. Ok, let's
>> accept that for the moment. According to Rob, below:
>>
>>>| Regardless, the US
>>>| SC34 mirror committee typically sends a delegation of 2 or 3 people to
>>>| international meetings.
>>
>> Ok, so even if the US committe sent only Microsoft employees, that means
>> it sends only 2 or 3 members to an international committee.
>>
>>>| The international standards body ISO has offered to help maintain the
>>>| ODF document standard alongside its work on the rival
>>>| Microsoft-originated OOXML specification, saying its creator Oasis is
>>>| not dealing with defect reports quickly enough.
>>
>> Ok, so please tell me how a maximum of "2 or 3" Microsoft atendees owns an
>> international meeting of dozens?
>>
>> This is Roy's logic. A = B, therfore A = C (nevermind that B != C)
>>
>> If Microsoft Stuffs the US committee, And the US committee sends 2 or 3
>> people to the international meeting, that means the international meeting
>> is stuff too.
>>
>> Wow, what logic.
>
> Last thing I've heard was that MS has people working in other countries,
> too...
There is an interesting comment from Rob Weir, in reply to a question from
WuMingShi, at http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/10/wheres-rob.html :
"There are several participants in SC34 who have had the stated goal of taking
control of OOXML and ODF and maintaining them both in SC34 WG's. They've been
quite open about this plan. The problem is that they are planning a future for
standards that they neither own nor control nor have technical expertise.
"This was an interesting goal when they first articulated this idea, around two
years ago. However, now that we've seen that JTC1 is easily corruptible, both
at the NB, SC and administrative levels, that JTC1 is incapable of fairly
carrying out its own Directives, and that in practice SC34 is now so dominated
by Microsoft that we could consider it a fully integrated division of
Microsoft Corp., this push toward maintaining ODF in SC34 is both naive and
dangerous. It will not happen. Doing so would be a huge step backwards in
participation,openness, transparency, in IP rights and in technical quality.
Drain the swamp first, and then let's talk."
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