Microsoft Bought Sweden's ISO Vote on OOXML? 340
a_n_d_e_r_s writes "The vote on OOXML looked fairly secured. Most in the Working Group in Sweden was against the vote to approve OOXML. The day of the vote, though, more companies showed up at the door. Some 20 new companies — each one payed about $2500 to be allowed to vote — and vote they did ... for Microsoft. Most of the new companies were partners from Microsoft who suddenly out of the blue joined the Working Group, payed membership fees and voted yes for approval. From the OS2World story: 'The final result was 25 Yes, 6 No and 3 Abs and this would from the start be a done deal of saying No! Jonas Bosson who participated in today's meeting on behalf on FFII said that he left the meeting in protest and so did also IBM's Swedish local representative Johan Westman.'"
Corporate whores (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Corporate whores (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Your Windows monopoly money at work. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes ?
Re:Corporate whores (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Your Windows monopoly money at work. (Score:5, Funny)
fixed it for ya.
Re:Your Windows monopoly money at work. (Score:4, Funny)
The funniest thing of all (Score:5, Funny)
This is a quote from the SIS.SE home page:
Translation in english: "It's not money that makes the world go around. Do you want to know what it is?"
Apparently the answer is: money
Re:Evil bastards (Score:5, Funny)
If that's not integrity, what is?
Re:Your Windows monopoly money at work. (Score:4, Funny)
fixed it for you.
"Ready! Aim! ..." (Score:4, Funny)
...so long as MS is against the wall. Blindfolds or not, I don't care.
Reminds me of a joke... (Score:5, Funny)
God was in a good mood and decided to give virtues to people. One day he decided to give all the programmers in the world three virtues:
They would be smart, well-intentioned, and work for Microsoft. But an angel told him: Hey, wait a minute, aren't they too many virtues?
"You're right", said God. "They'll have these virtues but a person can only have two of these virtues at the same time".
Since then, programmers in the world were divided in the three following groups:
Programmers who were smart and well-intentioned, couldn't work for Microsoft.
Programmers who were smart and worked for Microsoft, couldn't be well-intentioned.
Programmers who were well-intentioned and worked for Microsoft, couldn't be smart.
Re:Your Windows monopoly money at work. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:PAYED/PAID (Score:3, Funny)