> This company is really starting to scare me.

The UN Standards group or Microsoft?

If Microsoft, Why?  The article also mentioned a couple of well known
companies who also had issues with the same standards group (SAP in
Germany inparticular) - primarily (it seems) over the groups
insistance that Intellectual Property placed into the Open Source
arena governed by that body would be indemnified by the contributing
company.

If I was involved with this group and was required to warrant
something I placed into an Open Source project which I then had little
control over how it would be used, I'd be pulling out too.


Regards,
Gary Menzel
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