Microsoft Bails from U.N. Standards Group



I don't want to keep posting on Microsoft, but those guys keep at it. Oh well...

Wasn't it just last February that Slashdot wondered whether Microsoft was paying off UN/CEFACT? Well, it seems that the free around the world junkets didn't do the trick to sway UN. committee member votes..

Microsoft is leaving the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business because of concerns about control of intellectual property. Following in the proud tradition of the U.S. Government, if the U.N. won't do it their way, they're out of there! Rumor has it that they're putting together a "coalition of the willing" which will include a number of Eastern European and Third World software companies that depend on their good graces for support.
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