I passed some of your previous postings to relevant people and I appreciate the input. If you want to see several people getting sacked for supporting open standards, read the following story:

Massachusetts — Bullied, Battered, and Defeated

They replaced not one CIO, but two (a CIO and his successor), only to be replaced by a Microsoft lobbyist.

Shocking, isn’t it?

As usual, a quick translation of the facts:

SFS (The Finnish Standards Association) has FIRED its recently hired expert Lassi Nirhamo. Just last week he still participated in SFS’s press conference.
He told Tietokone-magazine that he was informed last Thursday, as his trial period of four months was coming to an end.
(Over here employers can legally fire anyone during trial, up to 6 months, without telling them even a reason.)

Pekka Järvinen, MD of SFS stated lack of confidence as the reason for firing Nirhamo.

SFS is already seeking for a new expert, who will carry the burden of many information technology standardization projects, including handling of OOXML in ISO during next spring.

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Let me guess: it’ll be someone who fully sympathizes with Microsoft. Only Microsoft. And the paychecks, under the table of course.