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IBM Threatens To Leave ISO Over OOXML Brouhaha
barnackle writes "In addition to threatening to leave certain standards organizations over the OOXML shenanigans, IBM created new guidelines for its own participation in those organizations in an attempt to pressure the ISO and ECMA to be more fair in their approval procedures."
...because of concerns that their processes are not always fair.
A "fairness" lecture from IBM? They're one to talk! Oh, to count the ways....
Brought to you by.....IBM! Makers of bloated slow shit! OS/2, DB2, Websphere, and everything else they've ever did!
IBM is a bunch of cry babies, pure and simple. I hope they DO leave. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
BTW, as much as slashdotters accuse Microsoft of bribing lots of ISO officials (complete bullshit, BTW), it was IBM that was going around bringing pressure to bear on officials, and writing their objections for them (that's why so many of the submitted objections to the first OOXML spec were nearly word-for-word identical despite coming from multiple countries; they were written by IBM; Rob Weirdo doesn't even deny this (despite being a well-known liar, whose lies are so blatant that even John McCain would hesitate to use them).
IBM tried to game the system MUCH more than did Microsoft. They lost, now they're whining about it. If IBM does leave ISO (let's hope they do), THAT will take a huge amount of the influence peddling out of the ISO system, since the vast majority of such shennanigans are done by IBM.