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.
Simon Phipps says:
December 22, 2005 at 2:23 pm
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