MS Quits UN Standards Body

per the New York Times, Aug 23rd
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/technology/24soft.html
"Advocates of proprietary and open approaches to software technology
standards had clashed within the organization, ..."

If you don't do NYT registration, see most of it at the Yahoo! SCOX
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http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1600684464&tid=cald&sid=1600684464&mid=171618

"MS cites differences with UN over intellectual property issues as
cause. ebXML seems to be at root of problem. SAP has also left the
standards body."

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Received on Tue Aug 24 12:44:27 2004