____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Saturday 11 August 2007 18:44 : \____
> On Aug 11, 10:10 am, Nomen Nescio <nob...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/10/Microsoft-loses-key-US-Open...
>>
>> Now they're FUCKED. Only ODF will be an ISO standard and MS Office will
>> fall by the roadside.
>>
>> This is a historic day, the beginning of the end...
>
> Talk about the Giants of Industry squaring off:
>
> =========
> Committee representatives from Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Sony, EMC,
> Hewlett-Packard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the
> Electronic Industries Alliance supported Microsoft's standard.
>
> Against it were IBM, Oracle, Lexmark, the U.S. Department of Defense,
> the National Institute of Standards and Technology, GS1 U.S., and
> Farance. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
> abstained due to "the divergent viewpoints of key IEEE members."
> =========
Well done, Oracle. Shame on Apple who are once again raping BSD developers
whose code they use.
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