> > In my book, asking companies who depend on you for their
> livelihood to
> > join a standards organization and vote in your interests is
> corrupt,
> > whether or not it is legal, and whether or not there is any
> explicit
> > financial inducement.
>
> So you can be corrupt by using a product in your systems,
> having the vendor point out why it would be useful as a
> standard, and then joining the standards effort because it
> would benefit you?
That's an absurd distortion of what I said.
I would say the process has been corrupted if people are voting when the
issue does not affect them directly, but only to demonstrate loyalty to
their business "partners".
Michael Kay
