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title: ECMA as a swiss bank account
date: 2005-12-22T20:08:52Z
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Deliciously waspish commentary from Simon Phipps, wrt Office XML standardisation.



He describes [ECMA](http://www.ecma-international.org/) 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](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker) pills.