Jonas Bosson, President of FFII Sweden and CEO of Illuminet, is reporting about the meeting at SIS:
I was asked by Daniel at FFII to come to SIS [NB] today, Daniel said that Microsoft had stuffed the committee with 5-7 partners in time for the vote. That a "No" would probably become a "Yes" for a very poorly developed standard.
First I spoke with Torbjörn Cederholm at SIS to see if it wasn't possible to stop companies that had not participated in the earlier meetings from voting. But SIS did not want to do that. So I filled out a form and thought that an investment of 17 000 was not too bad if I could avoid having both inches and millimeter screws in drawer [dual standards]. I thought I could maybe balance the 5-7 new companies.
But when we arrived at the meeting it turned out that these 23 companies had also applied for membership on the voting day:
Exor AB
Formpipe software AB
H-Vision AB
HP
Cybernetics
Google (will probably vote No with comments)
Ibi2kitAB
Readrift AB
Emric AB
Strand Interconnect AB
Nordicstation AB
Sourcetech AB
Cornerstone Sweden AB
Solid Park AB
Fishbode systems AB
FSSystem AB
KnowIT Sverige
Modul 1
IDE Nätverkskonsulter
Connecta AB
Camako Data HB
Sogeti AB
Tieto Enator Corp.From a "NO" it looks now as if we have 28 organisations in favour and 6-7 against.
This is how a standard is bought.
I left the meeting in protest - pissed off.
I thought Sweden was not a corruptable country?
Maybe I was wrong?
