[odf-discuss] Tim Bray on ISO debacle

[Ian Lynch]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 17:26 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote:
> Interesting comments:
> 
> 	'whatever their "Fast Track" process was designed for, it sure
> 	wasn’t this. ...[ISO's] reputation, in my eyes, is in tatters.
> 	My opinion of ECMA was already very negative; this hasn’t
> 	improved it, and if ISO doesn’t figure out away to detach this
> 	toxic leech, this kind of abuse is going to happen again and
> 	again.'
> 
> 	http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/29/BRM-narrative
> 
> I guess a lot more embarrassing things would come to light without the 
> imposed secrecy.
> 
> MOOX is acting like a denial of service.  We need to just drop it and 
> move on to working with ODF.

Maybe we need to hit a slightly different angle. Some highly public
airing of the ISO process and how flaky it is in resisting vested
interests. If ISO is broken maybe they might be embarrassed enough to
fix it and concentrating on the ISO process stops it appearing that it's
simply an anti-MS thing.

Ian
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