ord on the street in the news is that CONSEGI 2008 [1, 2] has just gained some more steam with the addition of another protester.
The Dominion of British West Florida Joins Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, and Paraguay in condemning the actions of the ISO/IEC in rejecting the appeals lodged against the approval of DIS29500.
All Dominion of British West Florida Government offices are required to seek first systems that support ISO/IEC 26300.
"it's just a format," some would say, but formats and protocols manage many aspects of our lives. This includes our information, memories, connections and communications with people, even cost. Who would possibly promote a format that was created by Microsoft only to serve Microsoft? Apart from those who are literally paid to support it (Novell), there are all sorts of paid 'supporters' out there on the Web.
We have already pointed out that Microsoft bloggers are citing everything that's fabourable to Microsoft OOXML in pretty much the same way. Here is a new post explaining this phenomenon.
The role of blogging in corporate communication is challenging for ICT companies. Progressive views from a CEO about customer communications.
This headline, "You are paid to blog, shut up," echoes the statement made by an Microsoft lobbyist and ECMA/ISO insider. Microsoft financially compensates bloggers if they write favourably about Microsoft's products. Microsoft also encourages its employees to comment in news sites. Is anyone out there supporting OOXML for reasons other than money and personal gain? ⬆
It seems likely the end of Vista 10 coinciding with a sharp rise in memory prices (and now energy prices) will benefit GNU/Linux and therefore give us more to write about
MinceR says the "lkml [message/page] one is April Fools or at least they're trying to pass it off as April Fools [however] the [GitHub] one was archived on the 8th and yesterday, so that probably isn't..."
Like Scam Altman, Larry Ellison hangs around Cheeto King because he could use some bailouts in the form of government contracts or phony money with an incredible name like "Stargate"
When forums say that they banned Microsoft Lunduke or don't want him mentioned it's probably because they are familiar with the "stench" that follows him around
