Aehso’s Output

MA Technology Leadership Council meeting on proposal to standardize on the Open Document Meeting.

Tim Bray’s ongoing blog links to an audio recording of a recent open format meeting of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council where comments and questions from the public (including Microsoft, IBM, Novell and Sun) were entertained. This is seriously geeky, (nearly 2 hours long!) but interesting if you follow the ongoing open formats war and want to hear first hand the double talk and misdirection employed by the large software vendors when attempting to instill fear, uncertaintly and doubt in the minds of the board members. For example:

MSFT: This appears to be an assault on the intellectual property
of the private sector.

Kriss: Sovereignty trumps intellectual property. Companies
certainly have the right to own their own intellectual property.
We’re all for IP in implementations, just not in interchange
formats.

Respect to Eric Kriss and Peter Quinn for seeing through it all. Somehow, I cannot believe anyone involved in the decision making process in the Irish national government would be even remotely as clued in. Certainly to date, there is no evidence that the Irish government would attempt such a brave move (and alienate some of of their largest Corporation Tax ‘customers’).

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