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Posted in IBM, Microsoft, Open XML, Standard at 9:39 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Good standards earn recognition, impotent specifications require armies
As a followup to last week's war of words between Brian Jones and Rob Wier, consider this:
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If it is a standard war, as Brian proclaimes, Rob Weir (IBM) is an excellent asset without high fidelity. A trustworthy expert personality who always surprises you. And here comes the problem: People can be very sympathetic towards Microsoft and their products or just to the persons who evangelize their formats. But they cannot deny the obvious: that OOXML is a spec that should not have been submitted under fast-track. If someone like Brian takes part in the dirty campaign to rush it through anyway he needs to keep in mind that it is not a good way to make friends or gather sympathy. Probably it is a well-paid business as is corps washing and hangman business. Sorry, no one has the right to get an ISO stamp for a broken specification.
Microsoft has a lot of nerve claiming that there is war against it while it’s taking ISO as a poor hostage. This picture says a thousand words. █
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