Richard Detwiler wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: >> Why do I say Microsoft, when this is SC 34? Look at this, will you? It >> has a list of participants in the July meeting in Japan of the SC 34 >> committee. The committee membership is so tilted by Microsoft employees >> and such, if it were a boat, it would capsize. In fact, I'd say it >> already has. Of the 19 attendees, 8 are outright Microsoft employees or >> consultants, and 2 of them are Ecma TC45 members. So 10 out of 19 are >> directly controlled by Microsoft/Ecma. Any questions? >> >> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080825162905645 >> >> > > And what does this have to do with this OpenOffice users list?? >
The relevance is that group wants to take over ODF from OASIS and ODF is file format spec used by OpenOffice. For another take on related news, there's this: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081003-norwegian-standards-body-implodes-over-ooxml-controversy.html By one method or another, Microsoft is trying to destroy competition, including OpenOffice, by destroying ODF and by getting their own format declared the standard. This Norwegian issue is but one example of the corruption of the ISO process, when Microsoft tried to force through OOXML. It was so bad that ISO has lost credibility and one committee is now paralyzed, because they were stacked with Microsoft supporters and now they've lost interest, so that committee can no longer obtain a quorum. Much of this situation has been documented on Groklaw. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
