[jcelerier]

> No need to burden the rest of the community with it.

yeah, the problem is when IBM goes with big checks to national standard bodies and complains "muuuuhh we won't be able to assure that the systems we sold you in 1970 will still work in 20 years if the C++ standard removes support for EBCDIC" and then these standard bodies write strongly-worded letters to the ISO commitee: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n291...

[gpderetta]

I think that implying bribery here is dishonest. 6/7th of the authors of the paper are IBM employees and they are just voting according to their employer wills.