Matusow indicated that it was being rectified. I doubt that it was MS
policy. Probably one very eager beaver. Still, point made.
Standards are becoming a sordid business. If this goes as other events
have, someone will dig up bribery on the other side. And so it will go.
Rick Jeliffe made a good point: the anti-OOXMLers are not the same as the
anti-MS crowd. The pro-ODFers are not the same as the anti-MS crowd. The
pro-OOXMLers are not the same as the pro-MS and so on. The problem is the
news worthy events are the extremes of the polarities.
The losers are the customers. A tar ball dirties not only those it hits,
but the hands that pick it up to throw it.
len
From: Dennis Sosnoski [mailto:]
It's now clear that bribery *was* part of the process, with the emails
from Microsoft promising extra "marketing contributions" as a payoff for
voting for Open XML:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/F36E6AC141F8C10ECC2573470074B795
Anyone know if Karl Rove is now consulting for Microsoft?
