What's Wrong With Choice?
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| Brian Jones of Microsoft ... if you really care about choice,
| implement ODF as a fully-native peer to OOXML and automatically
| download it in the next batch of updates, rather than using a
| partially-functional plug-in that has to be searched out and
| then downloaded. Or is it really Microsoft that is afraid?
| Let's be honest here. According to your latest Form 10-Q,
| Office is 90% of the revenue of Microsoft Business Division,
| which is in turn one of the three profitable segments in the
| company. ... If there was a fully-level playing field-a
| standardized file format for the industry that almost anyone
| could implement-that would directly threaten Office.
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http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/01/20/whats-wrong-with-choice/
Related (yesterday):
An interesting offer: get paid to contribute to Wikipedia
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| So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago
| from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent
| but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on
| Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML. I am hardly the poster boy of
| Microsoft partisanship!
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http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/01/an_interesting_offer.html
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