Another fact for the Burton Group
I mentioned that the Burton Group had been remiss in not stating the implicit “equally true mathematical fact that IBM plus independent members also control 70% of the votes”
Here is another fact (Sun take note).
There is no mandated limit to the size of the ODF TC and votes are on a per member, not per organization basis.
After accepting a few new members from IBM (we already have 11, compared to Sun’s 7 and Novell’s 3), who then attend 2 consecutive meetings (required to gain voting rights), the voting members could look like this, if a few non-IBM people unexpectedly did not attend 2 consecutive meetings and lost their voting rights :
IBM 355,000
Sun 1 (Co-Chair)
Others 0
If Sun decided to play hardball, they would be outnumbered by 10:1.
We could easily outvote Sun, Microsoft and Novell combined.
Now that’s control.
February 17, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Rob served you up good, fool !
See: http://www.robweir.com/blog/fake-rob.html
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