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IBM announces new I.T. standards policy.

IBM today announced that, effective immediately, it is instituting a new corporate policy that formalizes the company’s behavior when helping to create open technical standards.

… The tenets of IBM’s new policy are to:

• Begin or end participation in standards bodies based on the quality and openness of their processes, membership rules, and intellectual property policies.

… An invitation-only summit is planned for November.

Let me know how that works out for you.

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Six comments here (latest comments)

1. It’ll be great when you go to work for your next company so we can hear some decent shit-talking about Google. :-)

   — Jemaleddin Cole 

2. Saying that they’ll select standards bodies based on the “openness of their processes” doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll select the more open ones… :)

   — Ian McKellar 

3. This looks like thinly-veiled fall-out from the Microsoft OOXML ISO application. Still, talk about being irony-free. Zod!

   — Keith Williams 

4. Microsoft is garbage and they make trouble with their formats. Open Source is the future.

   — some guy 

5. “openness of their processes”
   “… An invitation-only summit is planned for November”

   openness + closed summit = ?

   Sounds like the setup for an annoying meme….

   — telcor 

6. “Microsoft is garbage and they make trouble with their formats. Open Source is the future.” [someguy]

   Yeah, just wondering how your comment is at all relevant. Also, you capitalised “Source” for no reason.

   — lamby 

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