What it demonstrates is that this standardization process is fully paid for, has no merit, and is just the consequence of a company with way too much power, money, influence to redefine as far as the language we speak (this is anecdotal from the many posts from Microsoft apologists who have tried recently to redefine what a contradiction is, what backwards compatibility means, what interoperability means, what XML means, what a schema means).

Novell had the opportunity to stop it during the ECMA meetings in 2006. They chose not only to push this stuff, but even went as far as adding their public clowns (Miguel, and so on) to join the public game. What a betrayal of the interest of the community (not just the open source community).