04.18.09
OOXML BRM Convenor Admits British Standards Organisation (BSI) is Essentially a Fraud
Now that the gig is done, those who were responsible spill the beans
Summary: Alex Brown admits the BSI is not doing its job
ALEX Brown [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15], who was personally involved with the Microsoft-corrupted BSI, finally said the truth, which adds to a large amount of existing evidence. The BSI was already sued for it, but the plaintiff lacked funds to proceed.
Here is the latest summary of this ongoing corruption.
He may be wrong that this is the final proof of misconduct at the BRM under the lead of Alex Brown and its mission impossible to fix the standard. Following the shocking uncoverings Jesper Lund Stocholm, Alex Brown and Doug Mahugh are acting like little school girls with their gossip and giggles on Twitter. But there may be method to the madness. OOXML is already approved by ISO JTC1. Microsoft no longer needs to persuade the national bodies or influence the press or call out their business partners. It is enough for them to rely on social engineering in SC34, shmoozing, sponsorships, free dinners, free beer, etc.
The reporting of Groklaw about the Microsoft outbursts of unfiltered truth and sillyness made Alex Brown hit back to BRM allegations and he claims the British BSI did not do its job, didn’t review ODF properly:
Fact is though, we (the team) did NOT read ODF – we merely made a rapid pass through parts of the text over half a day, looking for obvious problems. Even so, the UK generated by far the greatest number of NB comments. This fact tells you all you need to know about the degree of scrutiny ODF got in its JTC 1 ballot. If you believe it was studied in detail in the UK, you are very wrong. … We learned from our ODF mistake, and rectified our errors [with open xml].
Pamela Jones of Groklaw answers to his flamebait:
Now, as it happens, I have formed the impression that you and the the MS elves want to “interoperate” with ODF so Microsoft forces can take it over, since even you must now realize that OOXML will never work and will never be adopted.
Microsoft is very busy talking about ODF in a service pack of Office 2007, but there will probably be MS-ODF, which isn't supposed to be fully compatible with the original. Remember Java? █
“Don’t encourage new, cross-platform Java classes, especially don’t help get great Win 32 implementations written/deployed. [...] Do encourage fragmentation of the Java classlib space.”
–Ben Slivka, Microsoft
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