Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Mike Schilling]

"John Bokma" <john at castleamber.com> wrote in message 
news:Xns96F395263F33castleamber at 130.133.1.4...
> "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now, once more, why are standards" *more valuable* than
>> "recommendations"?
>
> standards are written by internationally recognized independent
> organisations, v.s. everyone can write a recommendation. For you, and
> others this doesn't matter, for others it does. Why do you think Microsoft
> made part of .NET a standard?

Marketing.  It lets them claim that .NET is open and Java is proprietary. 
SOAP, which is also part of their "open" story, is a recommendation.