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ECMA as a swiss bank account

Deliciously waspish commentary from Simon Phipps, wrt Office XML standardisation.
 
He describes ECMA thusly.
They are the “Swiss bank account” of standards organisations – expensive to use but necessary when you have something to hide.

Sun’s chief open source officer has evidently been taking his Dorothy Parker pills.

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This entry was written by James Governor and posted on December 22, 2005 at 1:08 pm and filed under . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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  1. Simon Phipps
    Posted December 22, 2005 at 2:23 pm | Permalink

    The article itself[1] is of course about congratulating IBM on shunning TC45. Winter wasps only sting when awoken :-)

    [1] http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=ibm_blackballs_ecma_tc45

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