Comments on: ECMA and Microsoft Ignore (‘Dust Off’) Italy’s OOXML Concerns http://techrights.org/2008/01/26/ooxml-italy-comments/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob Weir http://techrights.org/2008/01/26/ooxml-italy-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-5125 Rob Weir Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:49:58 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/26/ooxml-italy-comments/#comment-5125 I not trying intentionally to be cryptic,Roy. But I think sometimes it is useful to take the names away from the players, make the situation generic, and look at the overall pattern,divorced from the specifics of the present case. When you do that, it can bring a level of clarity, and shows how much this process has been corrupted. If this really happened to a bridge project, the FBI would be trucking filing cabinets out of MegaCorp, and their principals, with their jackets over their heads, would be heading out the front door in handcuffs. But because the ISO process is spread out over dozens of countries, there is no jurisdiction that can effectively police this. This is one of the last bastions of the robber barons. I not trying intentionally to be cryptic,Roy. But I think sometimes it is useful to take the names away from the players, make the situation generic, and look at the overall pattern,divorced from the specifics of the present case.

When you do that, it can bring a level of clarity, and shows how much this process has been corrupted. If this really happened to a bridge project, the FBI would be trucking filing cabinets out of MegaCorp, and their principals, with their jackets over their heads, would be heading out the front door in handcuffs. But because the ISO process is spread out over dozens of countries, there is no jurisdiction that can effectively police this. This is one of the last bastions of the robber barons.

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