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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> IBM May Quit Technology Standards Bodies
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>> | The Armonk, N.Y.-based computer maker is expected to announce the review
>> | Tuesday, according to company officials. IBM has become frustrated by what
>> | it considers opaque processes and poor decision-making at some of the
>> | hundreds of bodies that set technical standards for everything from
>> | data-storage systems to programming languages, those officials said.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122211669212064331.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business
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http://technical-australia.blogspot.com/2008/09/microsoft-certified-technical-support.html
"Ecma didn't get one single dime more" from the Open XML approval, he said.
Haha!
Oil companies: "we didn't receive a dime from going into Iraq. Not a dime."
More here anyway:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080923044114524
Microsoft killed standards. May they rest in peace along with Microsoft, which
enters debt now.
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"There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would
include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the
economy."
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO
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