Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 18 July 2007 11:03 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> EU court to rule on Microsoft on Sept. 17
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Three years later, the Commission has repeatedly warned Microsoft that it
>>>| has failed to comply with the 2004 decision because it supplied
>>>| insufficient information.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6197070.html
>>
>> Microsoft will just drag it out as long as they can. This is what
>> they've always done.
>
> The US deferred it until 2012. What a joke.
>
>>> Microsoft twists and turns over ODF
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Yep, Vole is claiming it is a poor struggling company being stomped on by
>>>| these nasty open saucers who hold a monopoly and are trying to squeeze it
>>>| out of the market. Microsoft knows a lot about playing monopoly and
>>>| realises it is more than just getting a hotel on Park Lane that wins you
>>>| the game. But you need to have some serious psychological projection
>>>| problems to think that the ODF could kill off Vole's lucrative Office
>>>| product.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41055
>>
>> It could almost be a spoof article!
>
> I later saw the BetaNews article which refers to the Microsoft statement.
> Microsoft actually did use the word "monopolise" (or "monopoly") in reference
> to open source. They paint themselves as victims. Poor Microsoft... such small
> market share in office suites, so you can understand their concern... *rolls
> eyes*
>
It is amazing, isn't it, to see truly open standards being referred to
as a monopoly - I cannot imagine anything further from being a monopoly
than an open-standard. Still, it would seem that Microsoft's efforts to
decommoditise commodities are finally collapsing.
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