Comments on: So who won the Kayak award? http://osrin.net/2007/09/so-who-won-the-kayak-award/ Notes from fourty one degrees south... Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: oliver http://osrin.net/2007/09/so-who-won-the-kayak-award/comment-page-1/#comment-8 oliver Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:13:22 +0000 http://osrin.net/?p=20#comment-8 heh, I saw this last night and thought it was pretty interesting. FFII publically made money available in an effort to recruit people to subvert an ISO standardization process. My reading of this is that realized that it was a dumb move and they needed a clever looking way to back out of the offer. At the same time there are probably only a small number of people who could have accepted it without undermining their own positions even if FFII had wanted to hand out the award as they originally planned. As an added bonus FFII gave both sides of the debate something to giggle about with last nights press release. :) That said, I suspect they will lose a few friends along the way. I know some people worked hard to try and win this prize along with the notoriety that it would bring. The Kayak Award has been one of the more humorous moves of the last twelve months. I'll look forward to seeing the receipt from the Peruvian Earthquake Fund posted up on the net somewhere, some good will come from their nefarious plan after all! heh, I saw this last night and thought it was pretty interesting.

FFII publically made money available in an effort to recruit people to subvert an ISO standardization process. My reading of this is that realized that it was a dumb move and they needed a clever looking way to back out of the offer.

At the same time there are probably only a small number of people who could have accepted it without undermining their own positions even if FFII had wanted to hand out the award as they originally planned.

As an added bonus FFII gave both sides of the debate something to giggle about with last nights press release. :)

That said, I suspect they will lose a few friends along the way. I know some people worked hard to try and win this prize along with the notoriety that it would bring.

The Kayak Award has been one of the more humorous moves of the last twelve months.

I’ll look forward to seeing the receipt from the Peruvian Earthquake Fund posted up on the net somewhere, some good will come from their nefarious plan after all!

]]> By: Yoon Kit http://osrin.net/2007/09/so-who-won-the-kayak-award/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Yoon Kit Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:35:57 +0000 http://osrin.net/?p=20#comment-7 "Microsoft Awarded 'Best Campaigner Against OOXML'" http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/01/235237.shtml http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_awards_Microsoft_%22Best_Campaigner_against_OOXML_Standardization%22_prize -- any candidates to pick up the cheque? yk. “Microsoft Awarded ‘Best Campaigner Against OOXML’”

http://slashdot.org/articles/07/10/01/235237.shtml

http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_awards_Microsoft_%22Best_Campaigner_against_OOXML_Standardization%22_prize

– any candidates to pick up the cheque?

yk.

]]> By: oliver http://osrin.net/2007/09/so-who-won-the-kayak-award/comment-page-1/#comment-6 oliver Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:42:54 +0000 http://osrin.net/?p=20#comment-6 You could be in the running yourself yk, but I guess we won't know until we see an official announcement from FFII? BTW, welcome! You could be in the running yourself yk, but I guess we won’t know until we see an official announcement from FFII?

BTW, welcome!

]]> By: Yoon Kit http://osrin.net/2007/09/so-who-won-the-kayak-award/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Yoon Kit Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:31:14 +0000 http://osrin.net/?p=20#comment-5 I think its a toss up between Doug Mahugh and Microsoft Sweden. yk. I think its a toss up between Doug Mahugh and Microsoft Sweden.

yk.

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