Since ISO may be going down the plughole…

Since ISO may be going down the plughole – swept along by its deadly embrace with its petitioners – I would suggest we go ask the SI folk to whip up a new metric for bureaucratic corruption: call it the ‘soft’ and define it as the one million times the amount of money necessary to lube a committee to rubber-stamp your buggy, incomplete, self-serving standards document.

It’ll probably cost 2 μsofts to get it past the SI team, but it’d be worth it – and at current market rates that’d be a snip at about $100K.

What do you think – I should start a collection?

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2 responses to “Since ISO may be going down the plughole…”

  1. Alexander Bokovoy

    Darn, you’re right. This “standard” draft should soon become a standard in officials’ bribery.

  2. Fortunately ISO has rejected OOXML as an ISO standard, which means that it will need to be revised if MS is serious about getting it accepted.

    This also means that the current M$ Office release will not be producing standardised OOXML if that did happen..

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