Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 21 July 2007 10:30 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Fighting OOXML
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| The normally boring world of international standards has turned into a
>>>| bloody fist fight between the most brutal monopolist of modern times, and
>>>| the Community. Just the name, ?Office Open XML? makes my head spin, and
>>>| when I start to read Microsoft?s so-sincere explanations that ?users demand
>>>| multiple standards?, my blood begins to boil. But before I turn green and
>>>| rip off my shirt, let me take a deep breath and look calmly at how
>>>| Microsoft is trying to do to ISO what Borat wanted to do to Pamela.
>>>|
>>>| [...]
>>>|
>>>| This fight is over the future of Microsoft?s desktop monopoly. If OOXML
>>>| gets passed as an ISO standard, Microsoft will be rolling out more
>>>| ?standards? and end up with a stack of ISO standards that only it can
>>>| implement. It is already spinning ?open standard? to mean ?closed format
>>>| heavily protected by secrets and patents?. Free software won?t be able to
>>>| implement OOXML, and users will be locked-in to Microsoft?s proprietary
>>>| world for decades. It?s a clever abuse of the standards process.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Fighting_OOXML-1/
>>>
>>> Microsoft Sprang October Surprise on Novell
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Ahh, it seems that Novell didn't know until two weeks before its infamous
>>>| deal with Microsoft was announced that there was a sine qua non patent
>>>| component to the thing. The poor little innocent thought Microsoft was
>>>| negotiating interoperability for the sake of interoperability until
>>>| Microsoft had Novell salivating like Pavlov's dogs and then Microsoft
>>>| explained the fact of life. We have this tale from someone who was there
>>>| and says it's true.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.sys-con.com/read/405243.htm
>>>
>>
>> I refer you to the article I wrote long ago on the Novell/Microsoft
>> deal. It would seem to be pretty good!
>
>
> Yes, it's very correct in hindsight.
>
> http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/23/novell-mark-kent/
>
Having just re-read it, it pretty well predicted everything that
happened afterwards rather well. I must've thrown some coins into the
water that day.
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