Questions for Microsoft on open formats
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| After Microsoft announced it would work with the UK National Archives to
| help open old digital document formats, Georg Greve and Joachim Jakobs,
| of the Free Software Foundation Europe, question the US giant's motives.
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| What happened: Microsoft asked the UK National Archives to invest in a
| solution that would grant access to their legacy data.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6291124.stm
U.N., Microsoft open door to medical data in poor countries
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| Microsoft is contributing to the effort by offering servers and security
| software designed to help protect the journal material from unauthorized
| distribution outside the project.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9742759-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Sounds like DRM is a possibility here, if not proprietary technology.
They do the same in the United States, offering cheap storage of medical data.
Think of it as putting a pawn to secure dependency. They already do it with
Facebook, through investments that block Google acquisitions.
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