__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 19 April 2007 08:54 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:53 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Sun's McNealy Calls for Merger of OASIS/ISO's ODF and China's UOF
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| But the conference is also timely in that McNealy took a meaningful
>>>>| amount of time during his presentation to note that there are (in his
>>>>| words) three main document formats in existence today: Microsoft
>>>>| Office, Open Document Format (ODF) and China's Uniform Office Format
>>>>| (UOF). And he also called for the last two to be merged.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070417025728436
>>>>
>>>
>>> He's quite right about this. I don't truly understand why the Chinese
>>> decided to invent their own, here, but it does seem to dilute the effort
>>> of ODF somewhat. Microsoft will hang on to their vertically-locked
>>> format for as long as they can squeeze their last customer for upgrade
>>> cash.
>>
>> Outside the US, their fight is a lost cause, despite all the lobbying.
>> Watch them lose a lot of market share. The cash cow is getting leaner.
>>
>
> I imagine that their tactics will become ever more aggresive and
> unpleasant as they lose more and more thoroughly.
That's why we need to catch them and show other who they /really/ are (think
Men in Black). It's something that PJ once said in a different context --
Mono and de Icaza.
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