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   Verily I say unto thee, that voodoo spake thusly:   
   > On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:00:59 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:   
      
   >> Has something changed dramatically in the past few years, voodoo?   
   >> When I was on such committees, all of the participants were from the   
   >> companies that used the standards in their own products and whatever   
   >> information went into the standard came from the committee members   
   >> themselves.  For a document standard that was expected to describe   
   >> the syntax used by Microsoft for their Office product, I would expect   
   >> that all of the work would be done by Microsoft employees on the   
   >> committee.   
   >   
   > documenting the output of a microsoft product does not need to be a   
   > standard. standards are to let multiple unattached organizations   
   > produce the same output. and of course, once the standard process   
   > begins, there will be opinions on what should be changed. some parts   
   > of msxml are wrong, some parts suck. part of a standard process is   
   > resulting in something everyone can live with. you are confusing a   
   > standard with a decree.   
      
   I've changed my mind, "amicus_curious" really is the paid2post Bill   
   Weisgerber shill.   
      
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