Microsoft Joins OpenDocument Alliance

Jim writes "Microsoft has joined a committee that has a key role in the ratification of OpenDocument as an international standard, leading to accusations that it intends to sabotage the process. Microsoft has denied this accusation, claiming that the only reason why Microsoft employee Jim Thatcher has joined the group was to get involved in the ISO standardisation of its own file format." From the article: "'There sits Microsoft, waiting, like a spider,' wrote Jones, in a posting on her site. 'I am imagining ODF plodding along, with Microsoft asking questions, fine-combing through the comments, did you mean this or that?, getting bogged down in minutia until, lo and behold, either Microsoft's XML makes it as an ISO standard first, or they arrive neck and neck.'" More information here on a subject we touched on in a recent Slashback. update a few readers have asked for the clarification that MSFT has not joined ODF, but rather the "INCITS/V1 Technical Committee"

Comments

Re:Jesus Christ

[Neoprofin]

Jesus Christ was a jew, he did nothing of the sort.

Re:Jesus Christ

[Anonymous Coward]

That has got to be the most retarded bunch of misleading hogwash ever. It's amazing how Christians can trick their broken brains into believing anything that supports their "Cause".

Also, why are Christians so threatened by the concept that Jesus shared the same religion as those who are called Jewish today? There was obviously no Christianity at the time, it was split from those at the time who believed exactly as the Jewish. There was no giant repository of "Neutrals" from which Christians were pulled, they were mostly Jewish who kept their current faith and added Jesus into it.

Get over yourselves. There is nothing special about Christians when compared to Jews, Muslims or Buddhists (except that Christians are currently in the position to do the most damage to the world, and are taking advantage of the position).

It is still just another evil cult.

Hey, if anyone actually read this far. I watched the first of that show last night where they were giving out 1.5 million dollars. Towards the end they listed three secrets about three contestants. The first one was that one contestant declared bankruptcy while earning over $100,000.

Now THAT is obviously a Christian. I knew immediately that it was the preacher girl, and of course it was. No shame about it, no nothing. Just pure fucking evil.

Yeah, I'm posting anonymously--these evil bastards will KILL you, like dead. They will slice your family up like the sacrifices that their god demanded back before they were "Forgiven" by the Jews killing his son (Funny, would they be forgiven if the Jews hadn't killed Jesus? Would they still be required to murder their daughters if it turned out they weren't virgins on their wedding nights? Every fucking dumb-ass Christian should be thanking their asshole of a god that the Jews did what they did--they should be bowing down in praise to every Jewish person they encounter.)

Sorry for the rant, but it felt good. these hypocritical bastards are driving me nuts lately.

The Aryans and other historical trivia

[jd]

The Aryans were a particularly violent cult that originated somewhere around Iran (whose name derives from it). They are associated with the massacre of the peaceful citizens of the Indus Valley, placing them under a violent and cruel slavery. There, the trail stops being so clear. The religions of the Aryans never made it into mainstream Europe and DNA analysis shows a surprisingly high percent of very early DNA traces, indicating that a warlike, psychotic race like the Aryans could not have conquered any sizable part of Europe.

DNA analysis strongly indicates a widespread influence from the Nordic cultures, which are often associated with the Aryans. However, the Norse of old would have laughed at such a delusion. The Norsemen are a far more ancient lineage, which spread up through Europe in the stone age - long before the Aryans existed. Indeed, there are few in Europe whose lineage is not provably far older and far more noble.

Is this flamebait? Probably. I have little time for supremacist groups. There's nothing supreme about them, apart from their egos, and their claims are easily disprovable trash. I'd rather go to a Microsoft conference - and that's saying something. Even Discordians are more worthy of respect.