Comments on: “Your tale, Sir, would cure deafness” (W. Shakespeare, the Tempest I.2) http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/03/31/your-tale-sir-would-cure-deafness-w-shakespeare-the-tempest-i2/ A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:53:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Boycott Novell » Is Microsoft’s OOXML the “Greatest [of] Scam[s] of Computing History”? http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/03/31/your-tale-sir-would-cure-deafness-w-shakespeare-the-tempest-i2/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Boycott Novell » Is Microsoft’s OOXML the “Greatest [of] Scam[s] of Computing History”? Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:21:53 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/03/31/your-tale-sir-would-cure-deafness-w-shakespeare-the-tempest-i2/#comment-679 [...] unanticipated response to this “scam” comes from Charles, whose words are echoed in the title of this one particular post. If you thought you had seen everything about OOXML with the likes of Rick Jelliffe, committees [...] [...] unanticipated response to this “scam” comes from Charles, whose words are echoed in the title of this one particular post. If you thought you had seen everything about OOXML with the likes of Rick Jelliffe, committees [...]

]]> By: Yoon Kit http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/03/31/your-tale-sir-would-cure-deafness-w-shakespeare-the-tempest-i2/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Yoon Kit Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:07:05 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/03/31/your-tale-sir-would-cure-deafness-w-shakespeare-the-tempest-i2/#comment-677 How about Czech? yk. How about Czech?

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]]> By: carlos http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/03/31/your-tale-sir-would-cure-deafness-w-shakespeare-the-tempest-i2/comment-page-1/#comment-675 carlos Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:54:41 +0000 http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/03/31/your-tale-sir-would-cure-deafness-w-shakespeare-the-tempest-i2/#comment-675 Regarding Switzerland: It is true that chairman Thomann virtually decided Switzerland's position himself, but *also* Istvan Sebestyen, the secretary of ECMA, happens to be the chairman of the relevant parent commitee and exerted some influence, and *also* a dozen or two Microsoft partner companies joined the committee a day or two before voting and didn't join any disscussions, and *also* the representative of the Swiss government voted in favour of OOXML apparently under instructions (his boss National Councillor Hans Rudolf Merz was prominently reported as having had discussions with Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum), and *also* the vote was just one short of "Abstain", and *also* two companies (Google Switzerland and Liip), who were outspoken against OOXML, failed to join the commitee in time, and *also* the officers of Swiss Normierungs Vereinigung, while trying to play fair or at least appear so, were obviously biased in favour of OOXML. So it was a lot of factors and the result might have come out differently if we had tried just a little bit harder or Microsoft hadn't had all the breaks after the first vote, which had gone against OOXML. Regarding Switzerland:

It is true that chairman Thomann virtually decided Switzerland’s position himself, but *also* Istvan Sebestyen, the secretary of ECMA, happens to be the chairman of the relevant parent commitee and exerted some influence, and *also* a dozen or two Microsoft partner companies joined the committee a day or two before voting and didn’t join any disscussions, and *also* the representative of the Swiss government voted in favour of OOXML apparently under instructions (his boss National Councillor Hans Rudolf Merz was prominently reported as having had discussions with Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum), and *also* the vote was just one short of “Abstain”, and *also* two companies (Google Switzerland and Liip), who were outspoken against OOXML, failed to join the commitee in time, and *also* the officers of Swiss Normierungs Vereinigung, while trying to play fair or at least appear so, were obviously biased in favour of OOXML. So it was a lot of factors and the result might have come out differently if we had tried just a little bit harder or Microsoft hadn’t had all the breaks after the first vote, which had gone against OOXML.

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