[odf-discuss] Alex Brown on OOo ODF validity

[Russell Ossendryver]

>Alex Brown recently gained a place on the advisory committee of the British
Library, an organisation that just happens to provide Adam
>Farquhar as chair of ECMA TC 45 for OOXML. The British Library and
Microsoft are close collaborators.  So independent operator with no
particular vested >interest? Hmmm.

the link with BSI and British Library goes a bit deeper. Francis Cave
http://www.franciscave.com/ , Chairman of BSI Technical Committee IST/41,
which represents  the work of ISO/IEC also consults the British Library and
collabarates with Alex Brown in business.




On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Ian Lynch <ian.lynch at zmsl.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:37 -0700, marbux wrote:
> > <http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39409700,00.htm>
> >
> > Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor of the process to
> > standardise Office Open XML (OOXML), posted a blog this week
>
> This entire debate shows why there should be only one ISO standard. Even
> if Alex Brown is entirely genuine in his views, there is always the
> nagging thought that perhaps he has some commercial vested interest in
> promoting OOXML.
>
> Alex Brown recently gained a place on the advisory committee of the
> British Library, an organisation that just happens to provide Adam
> Farquhar as chair of ECMA TC 45 for OOXML. The British Library and
> Microsoft are close collaborators.  So independent operator with no
> particular vested interest? Hmmm.
>
> It's wholly inappropriate for a person in Brown's position to start
> making emotive and what seem to be erroneous public comments.
>
> Ian
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