Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source documentA

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Sat, 7 Nov 1998 20:59:22 -0800 (PST)


On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Alex Belits wrote:

> This is all nice, however ISO and IETF are dominated by Microsofties.
> Ex: UTF-8-ization of everything (sorry, I talked about that before, and a
> lot of people claimed that it's good and open solution -- it isn't, it's
> the result of pressure of commercial implementors, and it was nowhere in
> sight until Microsoft started using it).

Correction -- until Microsoft started using Unicode, not UTF-8 encoding of
it.

--
Alex

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