[odf-discuss] [OT] Rick Jelliffe representing Australia, "Both sides of the equation not evenly represented"

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Matthew Holloway <
odf-fellowship at holloway.co.nz> wrote:

> A good summary of the reaction to Standards Australia's choice of
> sending Rick Jelliffe to the BRM...


Yeah, and see what Pamela Jones has to say about Jelliffe:

http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=529384

*"Tech media maven Roy Schestowitz and Pamela Jones of Groklaw have unearthed
1997 documents <http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/30/evangelism-is-war-memo/>from
the Iowa anti-trust case of 'Comes v. Microsoft,' in which Microsoft
Technical Evangelist James Plamondon talks about the importance of stacking
seemingly 'neutral' panels to assure that Microsoft platforms are adopted as
de facto standards. In a 'Highly Confidential' document entitled 'Evangelism
is War', Plamondon justifies his step-by-step strategy for stacking
'neutral' panels as a necessary act of 'war.' He suggests ways to enhance
the apparent popularity of Microsoft platforms as standards for the purpose
of convincing 'enemies' that adoption of the Microsoft platform as a
standard is inevitable, and 'surrender' is the only option. Groklaw's Pamela
Jones draws a parallel<http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958>to
the current-day work of Technical Evangelist Rick Jelliffe, who says
that he has been hired by
Microsoft<http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/01/odf_alliance_now_loves_me.html>to
act as a 'Devil's Advocate' for the National Board of Australia in
Microsoft's upcoming bid to have Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML)
accepted as a second international electronic document format ISO
standard. Recent
efforts by Microsoft<http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/28/1237255>to
change the composition of the ISO national panels have resulted
in some controversy
<http://slashdot.org/articles/07/08/30/1323216.shtml>and have spawned
a new EU probe into potential anti-trust
claims<http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/1719237>based
on the way that Microsoft influenced the composition of some of the
national boards to vote in the upcoming ISO ballot."*
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