Re: w00t! What a ride!

2007-09-17 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/17/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft's takeover of ISO thwarted ... considerable backlash as the nature of the effort ... becomes known.[1] Anyone know if any of this is getting coverage in the mainstream press? Or even the mainstream IT press? The sources given are,

Re: w00t! What a ride!

2007-09-17 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: On 9/17/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft's takeover of ISO thwarted ... considerable backlash as the nature of the effort ... becomes known.[1] Anyone know if any of this is getting coverage in the mainstream press? Or even the mainstream IT press? The

Re: w00t! What a ride!

2007-09-17 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Bill, 'According to Mr. Alksnis, “the story smells badly.' Leave it to the Russians to tell it as it is. But you missed this story: http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/09/14/266177 md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: w00t! What a ride!

2007-09-17 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:55:06 -0400 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/17/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft's takeover of ISO thwarted ... considerable backlash as the nature of the effort ... becomes known.[1] Anyone know if any of this is getting coverage in the

Re: w00t! What a ride!

2007-09-17 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hmmm. Russian news sources are being identified as typically honest. That's it, I'm officially living in bizarro-world now. ;-) While official Russian news sources sometimes have to be taken with a grain of salt, the average Russian on the street is pretty savvy and fairly blunt about

Re: w00t! What a ride!

2007-09-17 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: Anyone know if any of this is getting coverage in the mainstream press? Or even the mainstream IT press? The sources given are, shall we say, not exactly unbiased. Even very different perspectives are covered: Retired Ecma chief expects Open XML's approval by March