Quote of the Day: on Using Money to Standardise a Broken Proprietary Format
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2007-09-09 23:27:16 UTC
- Modified: 2007-09-09 23:27:16 UTC
Moments ago we posted a link to a thread where Miguel de Icaza (Novell VP) calls OOXML a "superb standard".
While that statement is comical for technical reasons alone, let us consider the
following quote from the creator of the C++ programming language:
"I have never heard of money changing hands in exchange for votes or anything equivalent... I guess every process is vulnerable to political and economic pressures, but I have not personally seen or suspected anything like that in relation to C++."
OOXML, on the other hand, had money changing hands in exchange for votes.