Mark Kent wrote:
Roy Schestowitz espoused:
Peter Köhlmann on Wednesday :
Last thing I've heard was that MS has people working in other
countries, too...
There is an interesting comment from Rob Weir, in reply to a
question from WuMingShi, at
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/10/wheres-rob.html :
"There are several participants in SC34 who have had the stated
goal of taking control of OOXML and ODF and maintaining them both
in SC34 WG's. They've been quite open about this plan. The problem
is that they are planning a future for standards that they neither
own nor control nor have technical expertise.
"This was an interesting goal when they first articulated this
idea, around two years ago. However, now that we've seen that JTC1
is easily corruptible, both at the NB, SC and administrative
levels, that JTC1 is incapable of fairly carrying out its own
Directives, and that in practice SC34 is now so dominated by
Microsoft that we could consider it a fully integrated division of
Microsoft Corp., this push toward maintaining ODF in SC34 is both
naive and dangerous. It will not happen. Doing so would be a huge
step backwards in participation,openness, transparency, in IP
rights and in technical quality. Drain the swamp first, and then
let's talk."
I suspect that if MS were to wage real war against a small African
country, Erik F would find some way of justifying it. He shouldn't
even be in this group.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/06ae4971a59ac93a?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: Erik Funkenbusch <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:09:42 -0500
Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Steve Ballmer: Some Things Should Only Work
in Windows
[quote]
[..] Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 3 Reasons Why The OLPC Project has Microsoft Running Scared
Here's a reason why EVERYONE should be running scared.
1) Millions of NIGERIAN children with free PC's. There's a reason most
of the 419 scams come out of nigeria, and now having millions of people
with computers to run such scams will only make things worse.
http://www.419eater.com/
[/quote]
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