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Comment Re:OOXML is a joke ... (Score 5, Informative) 75

How did it "become" an ISO standard?

**History lesson: How MS got Office Open XML approved**
MS paid the ISO membership fees for a bunch of new ISO members for that one critical ISO vote.
The new members were so happy, they voted to approve Open XML.

This way, the secretive and patent laden file format could be used in government bids where ISO file formats where required.

Soon after this outrageous manoeuvre,
ISO lost it's reputation and became known as I Sold Out.

Comment Re:Love the idea (Score 1) 163

That gives me a great idea - turn the poachers into middlemen. Get them to resell the fake horns at a large profit. It gives them a vested interest in passing off the fake horns as the real thing instead of making them compete with the fake horns, and the smugglers will be none the wiser.

Comment Re:Shitting all over casual gamers. (Score 1) 99

In case you haven't noticed, for the last decade or so the gaming industry has been catering mostly to casual gamers and shitting all over hardcore gamers as a matter of course. And then when a rare product targeted at hardcore gamers comes out, you bitch.

I was going to upgrade from an Xbox 360 PC wireless to an Xbox One PC wireless, but I think I'll save up for this model now.

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