____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 09 August 2007 18:52 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> MS, IBM-Sun slug it out on standard text format
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| A meeting has been called by the government in which members of both
>>| parties will meet. Microsoft India?s national technology offer Vijay Kapur
>>| counters Sun. He said OOXML was a completely open standard and its
>>| specifications were fully documented. He said there was no royalty charged
>>| and it works on a covenant of not to sue. He also said it did not recource
>>| to any proprietary information held by Microsoft.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://news.chrisranjana.com/microsoft-news/ms-ibm-sun-slug-it-out-on-standard-text-format.html
>>
>> How much are they paid to lie and manipulate?
>
> How the hell can anyone say " a convenant of not to sue" is any
> reasonable basis for a standard?
>
> These guys are just as bad as our trolls here; they have no principles,
> they don't care one iota about the customer, they just want to lock
> everyone in. Whether they can do it with binary files formats or binary
> drivers, they won't care, they just want the lock-in.
There is some worse stuff coming from Australia at the moment. The Free
software advocates there are fuming. The world is spun by the shilling (money
and astroturing). To repeat an old term that I like, "mafia culture"...
or "criminals in suits".
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~~ Best of wishes
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