It looks like those days of French Bashing are slowly fading away

Thanks to our new president, it took us only a few months to fix up our transatlantic tension with the Europeans mainly with the Frenchies that Bush left us with. We are now even going further donating money to French Consortium to help ensuring Open Global Internet. It looks to me all this non-sense French and French Fries bashing that started from the Bush administration are slowly going away. Thanks God! It is about time. BTW, not sure how many of you know about this – French Fries has nothing to do with France. It is from Belgium.

The Washington based, Internet Society ISOC , a non-profit organization focused on Internet-related standards, education and policy made an unspecified donation to French based World Wide Web (W3C) today. Their donation is aimed at helping W3C evolve into an organization that creates open web standards.

Not sure this was the first time they made such donation though. I know both ISOC and W3C have worked together for years in a number of areas, and have deeply shared values about the Internet development.

The two organizations will continue to operate independently, and will maintain their long-standing, informal collaboration. ISOC’s pledge of support is for three years, with both organizations working to ensure progress.

Do you guys remember this?