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> But a "reputable" commercial entity bribing entire countries to buy an ISO
> standard? Jesus Christ...
I don't think it was *quite* like that. ISO is just a collection of people
from different companies that happen to be grouped by country, it's nothing
to do with the actual country or government or anything. AIUI the companies
that helped get MS through were suppliers and "friends" with MS. This sort
of thing happens the whole time in other industries and nobody raises an
eyebrow, eg in the automotive industry the big ones like Ford and (in
Europe) the collaboration between BMW, Mercedes, Audi etc often "politely
requests" suppliers to help them get standards through. Ditto in the
telecoms industry, in the past Nokia practically wrote all the standards
documents because everyone had to agree with them or risk being chucked out
as a Nokia supplier (and hence losing a huge amount of business). Seems
like finally the same has happened in the software industry.
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