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Is Microsoft Paying To Influence UN Standards?
PizzaFace writes "Microsoft is reported to be spending strategically to influence the United Nations' standards for business data exchange. A UN standards-setting body, UN/CEFACT, and an industry-standards group, OASIS, had developed an open standard format for data interchange, called ebXML. Microsoft hired two people from UN/CEFACT, and a few months later the body decided to stop working on ebXML and instead to work on a Business Collaboration Framework for web services, promoted by Microsoft and IBM. Microsoft then paid for three UN committee members to travel to six countries to promote the BCF."
As an American, obviously you wouldn't know.
As your president only wants involvement with the UN when it suits him, and your attitude to international politics is a joke.
"Finally my plan to take over the world is coming to light!! MUHAHAHAHAHA"
Was it ever allowed to be usefull?
Who put the ruffians and despots in place?
Who has used corruption in place of foreign policy since the cold war?
The UN is a reflection of half a century of US "foreign policy". If you don't like looking in the mirror tough.
Although it is badly faulted it is the only hope that lots of the worlds population have - notably people dying of AIDS in Africa. You may have other choices, they don't I'm afraid.
realkiwi
I wasn't trolling but what the fuck do you mods know?
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