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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."
Any company that helps exterminate Jews is a good company in my book.
stick it to those bastids IBM! c==8
Hey since IBM whored out their hardware divisions overseas, does anyone still gives a rats ass about what they have to say?
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
this is the second best news of the day. First place: I got sucked off in the bathroom this morning :)
IBM? Who are they?
Oh, right, they were once an important company in the ancient days of core memory.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I would like to buy some of what you're smoking!
No such thing has been shown. You've bought into IBM FUD.
How do I know? Because unlike 99% of those in the open source world, I'm suspicious of *everyone* with a large financial stake in something, not just MS. Thus, I actually *researched* IBM's numerous OOXML claims, and found that in most cases, they were blatantly lying. It was the pro-OOXML folks that were, overall, more honest and accurate.
IBM is in open source to make money, and they have no qualms about using people to achieve their monetary goals.
I urge you to research for yourself. You'll be surprised at what you find, and how much of the anti-OOXML crap turns out to be pure FUD. And you'll find that most of that FUD originates from IBM.
Yes, IBM is primarily a hardware company, so unless they plan on implementing a document standard in hardware, who cares?
This is just an opportunity to attack MS. IBM philosophy has always been to make money for IBM - they don't give a rats ass about anybody else.
I refuse to trust any website registered by proxy. As long as groklaw and PJ continue to be anonymous, the rumor that IBM owns and operates groklaw will continue to gain traction.
Take a gander at what IBM does, numb nuts. they make some stuff, but a large part of thier business is consulting which involves reselling. Geeze.
IBM is good at giving away things they wouldn't be able to sell. Even within the java community there are many who prefer netbeans to eclipse. Saying that eclipse is the "absolute defacto standard for java development".
As far as using Eclipse for C++ development - it compares favorably with C++ IDEs of the late eighties.