On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:19:15 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Ivan Groznii ] on Saturday 29 July 2006 12:25 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Microsoft to charge for Office beta
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>>>
>>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6099987.html
>>>
>>> Is Micrsoft /that/ desparate for revenue?
>>
>> It won't be long now before OpenOffice overtakes MS Office.
>
> In the government space in particular. See some of the recent progress:
>
> http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060728073716584
>
> New friends are gained for the ODF alliance (on a daily
> basis even). And Microsoft Office has no proper support for
> ODF ,despite its stealing of Open Source code from
> SourceForge. This looks encouraging for Linux because many
> of these migrations break the shackles of key proprietary
> formats.
Stop spreading lies, Roy.
a) Microsoft is not writing the code for the ODF plug-in, Clever Age is.
So stop pretending anything Clever Age does is Microsoft doing it. b) the
code was not taken from source forge, but a book published on ODF according
to the project leader.
http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20060709143240795&title=Microsoft+did+not+grab+anything&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=458841#c458853
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