20 Aug 2011 fallenlord   » (Journeyer)

A Mockery of Standardization

I thought it was only an April Fool's joke that ECMA 376, also known as the Office Open XML "standard" was ratified as an ISO standard. Guess what - after hundreds of millions of dollars of lobbying, political maneuvering, the old boys at ISO ratified OOXML as a document standard. The weird part here is that the entire process in the national BRMs were noted to be tainted with intense lobbying and very sharp contrasting stands, rather than the expected unanimous decision that USUALLY happens when a standard gets ratified.

Shame on you Microsoft and ISO, shame on you. To ratify a 6000+ page plus paper stack that even MS hasn't even implemented fully, not to discount that it still has so many bugs that SHOULDN'T EVEN BE IN A STANDARD, is such an amazing feat, not of engineering, but on how corrupt and how low will this company go just to keep earning its dough. No offense, I've got no qualms with business earning their daily living decently, but with this kind of corruption of subverting and making a mockery of proper procedure, this company doesn't even deserve our support.


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