Summary: The company which impedes collaboration on software development and sharing gets to run things this time around (seventh International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration)

ALARM bells ought to be rung when proprietary software vendors control the message of their principle and principal competition, namely "open source". They already control the "open source" think tank and Dr. Dirk Riehle informs his readers that the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration will be hosted by Microsoft, helping Microsoft to set the agenda regarding "Open Collaboration" -- whatever this actually means (it's a vague term with conceptual repetition):

In 2011, WikiSym celebrates its 7th year of scholarly, technical and community innovation in Mountain View, California at the Microsoft Research Campus in Silicon Valley.

Thanks to Dr. Glyn Moody for spotting this. As Wayne rightly told him, "Does Microsoft know what a wiki is?"

Suffice to say, Microsoft never properly embraced the ideas of open participation (a PR campaign with the "my idea" motto says it all really... the people in these adverts are paid by Microsoft, whose idea it was all along). Recall what happened when Microsoft hosted plenary meetings of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34. ⬆