stupid.domain.name — According to Patrik F?ltstr?m, Swedish internet pioneer, the vote on Microsoft Office Open XML by the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) was bought by Microsoft. Just before the vote, a whole cadre of Microsoft partners that didn't participate in the preceding process payed the admission fee and was able to swing the vote from a NO to a clear YES
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icsbaseAug 28, 2007
Nothing to see here, we're just doing what we have always done. Move a long - Microsoft
in2deepAug 28, 2007
Oh that damn Microsoft is at it again!
schottyAug 28, 2007
I dont blame microsoft either. They are there for the money, just like how we show up to work every day. What I have a problem with is the fact that they keep winning without squat for competition. I was s**tting gold happy when I saw Dell going wioth Ubuntu, and then HP and Acer following. Once the awareness of what GNOME and KDE have to offer and what Linux can REALLY do for the consumers, we may as well get used to this.What still baffles me here in the US, is how we have representatives that get business yet fail to see how sticking with MS actually hinders business. With dealing with Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical (amongst others that I will leave out for brevity), one can have support businesses and create software much more easily than with closed vendors such as Apple or Microsoft. From a government point of view, this is preferred. Why? More taxes from the same amount of revenue, All net losses and equipment costs get written off. That means that since GCC costs nothing, nor does Ubuntu, CentOS, etc there are not the several thousand more per workstation to write off, nor can that push a struggling startup into the red in the first few years (licensing sucks, I lived it). This is vastly preferred. The only state that has a vested interest in keeping MS happy is Washington state. They are the ONLY state that collects state taxes. The Feds get everyone of course :DLittle things like that peeve me and get me going on rants. Then again, death to all politicians still sounds great....
davotoulaAug 29, 2007
Our ideals were less than ideal during WWII.
reno582Aug 30, 2007
It really doesn't matter to me if OOXML becomes a ISO standard or not, and im sure its the same situation for the other formats, but buying votes just makes them look desperate.Standard adoption is just a popularity contest, it doesn't matter what format gets ISO stamp.
davotoulaJan 28, 2008
Did not know about the capturing of German comms... "good" news I guess