A Mockery
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| Author | Content |
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| beirwin Aug 30, 2007 3:45 PM EDT |
Microsoft is making a mockery of the ISO/IEC standards process. |
| dinotrac Aug 31, 2007 7:33 AM EDT |
Microsoft can't make a mockery out of those processes. Only the people who run them can do that. Microsoft is trying it's best to convince those people to act like brain-damaged baboons on a bender, but it is still up to the organizations themselves. |
| jdixon Aug 31, 2007 7:50 AM EDT |
> Only the people who run them can do that. Yep. Very much like when certain European government agencies kowtowed to US interests on Piratebay. Yes, the US was acting like a bully, but the European governments were the ones acting like chickens. The same is true here. The organizations don't have to do what Microsoft wants, and if the rules are written in such a way that Microsoft can abuse them, it's probably time to look at rewriting the rules. |
| Abe Aug 31, 2007 10:39 AM EDT |
Quoting:Microsoft can't make a mockery out of those processesLike they say, it takes two to Tango, right! It seems to me that MS used coercion in Sweden, Denmark, and other places. No!!! Quoting:The organizations don't have to do what Microsoft wants, and if the rules are written in such a way that Microsoft can abuse them, it's probably time to look at rewriting the rules.Well, we wouldn't know what response ISO is going to have to all this shenanigans from MS until Monday Sep 3rd. But MS is making a mockery out ISO. ISO is based on an honor system and it is being heavily abused by MS. If ISO doesn't improve, enhance, or make its process more robust, ISO can kiss its credibility good bye. At this stage, the only thing ISO can do to retain its credibility and respect is to either postpone the voting and have enough time to research and investigate what has been said and written about MS behavior, or vote "NO" with comments and give OOXML a chance to merge with ODF. At this time, no matter what the outcome of the vote, MS lost a lot and doesn't make a difference any more. MS lost on the long run and ODF gained tremendous popularity and will be the ISO standard sooner or later. |
| dinotrac Aug 31, 2007 10:45 AM EDT |
>f ISO doesn't improve, enhance, or make its process more robust, ISO can kiss its credibility good bye. Them be true, true words, pardner. The danger of bastardizing something like that is that you destroy the very thing that made you want to bastardize it in the first place. If the standards had no meaning, Microsoft wouldn't care. If Microsoft destroys their meaning, others will cease to care. |
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