Remember Brett Winterford? The guy whom Microsoft gave a free journey to Redmond (he lives far away in Australia)? The guy who writes for the already-Microsoft-biased ZDNet and soon after his visit to Redmond unleashed some outrageous articles echoing Microsoft’s accusations against IBM and ODF? Well, the same guy has just published an article with a curious headline: “VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets”
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lozz
13 years 36 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago
ISO Death Warrant
ISO signed its own Death Warrant when it refused the OOXML appeals and here come the executioners!
Balzac
13 years 36 weeks 35 min 57 sec ago
Those who corrupt the process don't mind a few casualties.
Lots of venerable institutions perish from corruption. The ISO may become one of them. That's not always a great outcome. It took a lot of time for the ISO to gain a reputation as a reliable institution and if it has lost all credibility, how will we distinguish true standards from a format which is only a flash-in-the-pan?
We have to defend the integrity of the institutions we have even while we define new ones in case the existing ones are irrevocably corrupted by a scofflaw monopoly like Microsoft.