On 19/03/2004 05:21, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

Peter Kirk wrote:


Come to think of it, a not very large group of them with a
bit of money behind them could buy enough votes to outvote
the corporations and destroy Unicode -



Yes, right, interesting possibility! Not that much money either: a single punk rock concert would probably raise enough funds.

But, before I propose this to the World Wide Anarchist Consortium, could you
please mention at least valid motive for the action? They would object that,
as the anarchists are by nature anti-nationalistic and internationalist, the
anarchist on-line forums and web sites tend to be multi-language, and
Unicode is quite an useful tool for that.

_ Marco


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Well, I thought they were anti-big corporations as well. And one thing they could do with their votes would be to overthrow the stability guarantees which are making it hard to tidy up some loose ends for practical language work - and in doing so destroy some large corporate databases, if I understand things rightly.

Of course I wouldn't dream of proposing such a course of action, just an interesting speculation!

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