Today it resumes. Preparations for the BRM in Geneva have already kicked off and heavy Microsoft lobbying will be applied to ensure that nothing interferes with the process of making proprietary formats something that is seen as 'open'. It is natural to assume that rules will be broken, lies will be told, and briberies may be offered. We have seen plenty of that before and if Rob's mental note is anything to go by, the party has just begun and there's plenty of Kool-Aid in the bar.
Within the next 24-hours, Microsoft will submit to JTC1 a set of proposals for addressing the 3,522 comments that accompanied OOXML's failed ballot last September. We'll no doubt hear a lot of yip-yip-yahooing on their end. Expect a major media campaign. I don't want to take away the surprise, but I'm hearing that journalists are being flown into Redmond next week from around the world for briefings on OOXML.
The video is not new, but it's worth adding here and sharing with friends who know nothing about those who represent them in Geneva, most of whom will be obedient puppets. ⬆
And since Microsoft's software contains back doors, only a fool would allow any part of SSH on Microsoft's environments, which should be presumed compromised
IBM is not growing and its revenue is just "borrowed" from companies it is buying; a lot of this revenue gets spent paying the interest on considerable debt
