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Roy, I agree with your opinion that MS has very unclean motives for
Linux. There is a lot of evidence that you could have cornered Miguel
with and changed history! The hundreds of thousands of slashdot,
digg, senators, attorney generals, and news junkies didn't hear your
points. You didn't prepare for your one chance and you lost the
debate and hurt linux big time. A normal person would think that
Miguel won the debate by a wide margin. And even worse, you didn't
prepare for the media onslaught and boycottnovell.com was down due to
everyone visiting!!!
Roy, OOXML probably is going to take over ODF now because of this
failure. The media was all over this and people around the water
cooler were eager to hear why ODF should prevail. All you had to do
was corner Miguel by any of the excellent points you have written on
your site. Imagine the headlines, "Miguel forced to admit OOXML
risks!". I saw plenty of chances to make history and big news in that
debate and you missed them all!
Even if you were unprepared for the debates, you made a huge mistake
of not having adequate bandwidth for your site. People were eager to
hear the message, and they tried getting to the site and it was down.
They probably have forgotten about this issue and won't think of it
again and then just click save as "OOXML". Given the stakes, how much
preparation, practice and talking point construction do you think the
opposition had planned? And you came unprepared. The facts were
favoring your side. The sad fact is, no one will trust you again to
speak as a leader. What kind of leader doesn't prepare for battle? A
student who doesn't study for the test they could have aced?
You have just doomed an entire generation to OOXML. They have just
finished the embrace part. Next comes extend.
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