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SC 34 Meetings, Jeju Island, Korea - Day 4
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| My retirement?
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| With the arrangements made for WG 4, a vacancy arose for the convenorship of
| WG 1, and I was pleased to accept the honour of taking this role. It is a
| great responsibility, following in the giant footsteps of preceding convenors
| Charles Goldfarb, Martin Bryan, and Murata-san himself.
|
| On a personal level it must also be said it is a relief to step away from the
| standardisation of OOXML. Whatever one’s views about the merits of the spec,
| I think there can be no disagreement with the thought that being heavily
| involved with its passage is both tiring and stressful. For now, I’ve had
| enough.
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http://adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry081003-105734
Maybe he can pick up his 'reward' now by getting a very well-paid job at
Microsoft, just like Peter Galli. Or even Van Der Beld, who now works for a
Microsoft lobbying platform, having done the dirty jobs in ECMA and changed
rules for Microsoft in ISO.
A bunch of hyena sharing the loot, harboring fraud and misconduct...
Recent:
The customer counts for nothing
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| And as far as compatibility is concerned, you need not look further than
| Microsoft. It has been investing billions in its new wannabe-open format,
| which is actually a poxy pile of unstable zipped XML files - various bugs
| have been reported, especially concerning Excel. We should also mention that
| the document describing the standard is a six thousand-page monstrosity,
| which compares quite sadly to the less than one thousand pages description
| paper for the OpenDocument format.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/14/exploring-dark-side
Microsoft: 'ODF Has Clearly Won'
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| The battle between the OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's Open Office XML
| was long, and here and there rather nasty, but it appears as if we finally
| have a winner. The company behind OOXML already conceded by announcing it
| would implement support for ODF in Office 2007 SP2, but now it has also said
| it quite literally: ODF has won.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/19893
Related:
20 May: a day of anniversaries
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| Ultimately the situation raises questions which go to the heart of the
| relationship between JTC 1 as an entity, and its member bodies. Just who is
| in charge, the nations or the officials? The unfortunate state of the
| Directives have meant there have been too many occasions when officials have
| had to step in and save the nations from the folly of the Directives that
| they themselves approved. Like ODF and OOXML the Directives is (literally) a
| standard, a standard that has faults. Unlike ODF and OOXML, however, I am
| beginning to believe the Directives have got to a state where they cannot be
| redeemed by evolution and amendment. It may be time to start again from
| scratch.
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http://adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry080520-161544
Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”
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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'
|
| [...]
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| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML,
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation
Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html
Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777
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