From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 18:19:24 CDT
Alexander,
> > That I realize. Especially when it is Microsoft who's paying most part
> of the
> > bill
Your assertion about "paying most of the bill" is incorrect. The consortium
is and has been supported by a wide variety of companies and other
organizations, as seen from the membership list on
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html. Of course, Microsoft has
made other very important contributions as seen on
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/donors.html, plus of course all the
technical expertise they have contributed --but so have other members,
including my own company.
Now, if you mean the amount of money that Microsoft has devoted to
implementing the standard -- compared to the amount others have -- that is a
different topic. I have a certain degree of skepticism that you are in a
position to make any such claim, unless you are miraculously privy to the
details of the budgets of all the organizations involved.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:38
Subject: RE: ASCII and Unicode lifespan
> > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
> On Behalf
> > Of Alexander Kh.
>
>
> > That I realize. Especially when it is Microsoft who's paying most part
> of the
> > bill - I totally foresee that their systems will be based on what they
> payed
> > for.
>
> If Microsoft disappeared tomorrow, what Mark said would still apply to
> everybody else.
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