[Ecommerce] MS Awarded "Best Campaigner Against OOXML"

[jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com]

All,

  From the gun+foot-in-mouth-pull-trigger-department of MS

See:

http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_awards_Microsoft_%22Best_Campaign=
er_against_OOXML_Standardization%22_prize


 "Microsoft itself is the surprise winner of the FFII's
Kayak Prize 2007, offered by the FFII in its call for rejection of
Microsoft's OOXML standards proposal. The software monopolist is honored
as 'Best Campaigner against OOXML Standardization.' FFII president Pieter
Hintjens explains, 'We could never have done this by ourselves. By
pushing so hard to get OOXML endorsed, even to the point of loading the
standards boards in Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, and
beyond, Microsoft showed to the world how poor their format is. Good
standards just don't need that kind of pressure. All together, countries
made over ten thousands technical comments, a new world record for an ISO
vote. Microsoft made a heroic =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=94 and costly effort to discr=
edit their
own proposal, and we're sincerely grateful to them.'" If Microsoft
doesn't send a representative to claim their 2500-Euro prize at the FFII
General Assembly in November, FFII will give the money to Peruvian
earthquake relief.


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