How many bricks for 67Bricks? http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516/how-many-bricks-for-67bricks Posts in the discussion thread "How many bricks for 67Bricks?" - Inigo Surguy, the 67Bricks Chief Technologist, was appointed Principal UK Expert in Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document format by the British Standards Institute technical committee responsible for British and international XML standards. 67Bricks is part of the Microsoft Empower programme. So How many bricks for 67 Bricks? http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516#post-133936 Re: How many bricks for 67 Bricks? http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516/how-many-bricks-for-67bricks#post-133936 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:56:42 +0000 arebenti 36024 Thanks for the clarifications. I will pull the article now from the front page.

]]> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516#post-133537 Re: How many bricks for 67 Bricks? http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516/how-many-bricks-for-67bricks#post-133537 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:37:13 +0000 cauld 103668 I tend to agree quite strongly with stegu- this is much-ado about nothing.

The Microsoft Empower Program is really little more than buying some cheap software- to be honest it's little different from having an MSDN subscription.

I co-authored a book with Inigo on XML a few years back and I don't remember him being particularly Microsoft centric- I've not got a copy of our book here (all at my office) but I'm pretty sure I wrote all the Microsoft centric chapters.

]]> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516#post-133493 Re: How many bricks for 67 Bricks? http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516/how-many-bricks-for-67bricks#post-133493 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:15:04 +0000 stegu 30391 Please calm down, there's no real reason to cry "wolf" in the last trembling moments of the vote. If the "Microsoft Empower Programme" constitutes an improper connection to Microsoft, then I would be bought as well. My employer (a university) has a large scale group licensing deal with Microsoft for many of their products. Try to filter your stories, I think this was an improper and unfounded attack.

]]> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516#post-133245 Re: How many bricks for 67 Bricks? http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516/how-many-bricks-for-67bricks#post-133245 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:07:45 +0000 Inigo 103402 I cannot comment on BSI discussions, which are confidential.

The Microsoft Empower programme is a programme in which small software companies can pay a couple of hundred pounds to Microsoft to get multiple licenses to MS products such as Windows, Visual Studio, Office and MSDN. It's a way of saving money, and doesn't imply any sort of close business relationship. In any case, I express my opinions independently of my company.

My previous articles about OOXML are at http://surguy.net/articles/ooxml-validation-and-technical-review.xml and http://surguy.net/articles/ooxml-brm.xml.

Inigo

]]> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516#post-133019 Re: How many bricks for 67 Bricks? http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516/how-many-bricks-for-67bricks#post-133019 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:02:46 +0000 arebenti 36024 Can't we leave this for the EU investigation? I see no value in washing the dirty cloth now. It is inappropriate to draw premature conclusions.

You saw it with my reporting about the Polish recommendation which was in fact just a loss in translation. I am sure that the secrecy of the UK process indeed guarantees that it cannot be easily hijacked. If the voting process was secret it would be far more difficult to buy votes inside the national committees.

Microsoft partners know very well that a prolongation of the ISO process would commercially play in their hands.

]]> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516#post-132991 How many bricks for 67 Bricks? http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49516/how-many-bricks-for-67bricks#post-132991 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:00:13 +0000 zoobab 2946 bricks.jpg

Inigo Surguy, the 67 Bricks Chief Technologist, was appointed Principal UK Expert in Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document format by the British Standards Institute technical committee responsible for British and international XML standards.

67Bricks is part of the Microsoft Empower programme.

Surguy has voted for OOXML at the latest BSI Technical Committee, according to leaks.

How many bricks for 67 Bricks?

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