Packing The Court At The ISO?
Friday, 2007-March-23
To the beautiful city of Oslo to attend the first SC 34 meeting of the year, and in particular to progress DSDL. SC34 suddenly has a lot of new P member countries (‘participating member’ countries) sending representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.
There is no end, but addition: Alex Brown’s weblog
Back in the 1930s, FDR’s programs kept getting struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Finally, he got so frustrated that he threatened to appoint enough of his own supporters to the court to win some cases. How can they not see that OOXML (ECMA 376) is unwanted by anyone outside of Microsoft? How about it Brian Jones? Are you really so desperate that you have to resort to that?
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Rob Weir | Saturday, 2007-March-24 at 06:31
Here’s the official attendence list: http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0840.htm
Five attendees declared themselves as working for Microsoft.
One can only speculate what wonders might have been done for the OOXML specification if they had spent as much time and attention on fixing its obvious flaws rather than flying around the world trying to convince people that it was a good standard.
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