Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft says 'archaeology' changes the way it develops products
> Critics say company isn't documenting interaction methods fast enough
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> | Microsoft Corp. will deliver the final installment of hundreds of
> | pounds of documentation of its products to U.S. regulators next
> | month, a result of seemingly never-ending disputes over the
> | company's business practices.
What Micoshaft Corporation lawyers are trying to do to
EU regulators with massive printouts is to overwhelm them
with information so that when verdicts are
given, they can turn around and say a point on page 6969
pargraph 6 sentence 9 addressed the issue and they want
a retrial or an appeal.
Thats childish. They know they are lost.
This kind of legal abuse does not have to go down well in
legal circles. Its fair to order the material to be
resubmitted in diminishing order of importance so that
experts can see if compliance has been met without
looking into the verbage.
Of course Micoshaft Corporation will be found guilty
on page 1 paragraph 1 sentence 1 if they were forced
to resubmit their 30,000 pages in this format.
So lets hope the EU regulators use the smart submission
directives to bring Micoshaft Corporation into
compliance, and if they can't then just break up
the monopoly and be done with.
> |
> | That load will exceed the roughly 30,000 printed pages, or 130
> | pounds of documentation, already prepared by Microsoft for
> | European regulators.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Not buying it
> |
> | Microsoft's rivals argue the company is doing too little, too late.
> | Vinje, of ECIS, said he doesn't believe Microsoft has faced the severe
> | challenges the company alleges in documenting its protocols.
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> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story
microsoft-says-archaeology-changes-way/story.aspx?guid=%7BF16A9817%2DFCCF
2D46A7%2DBF1B%2D6B6F38154049%7D&siteid=yhoof
> http://tinyurl.com/34klv3
>
> This is the same type of mockery that we find in OOXML.
>
>
> Related:
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> A cathedral of formats or a castle of cards?
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> | By writing 6000 pages, something else strikes many, including myself:
> | no human can implement that. In fact, nobody aside Microsoft will be
> | able to rightly implement it because Microsoft is the only one can
> | deal with the previously existing formats. For these 6000 pages are
> | thousands of man/years of confusion, users' lock-in, con-formating
> | of data, IP and jealously kept trade secrets. And you would expect
> | that anybody might come up with something that works? Apple, by
> | the way, will not. Because Microsoft Office for Mac will not be
> | able to use Open XML for some years, as I have learned. So good
> | for the great open file format of Microsoft. 6000 pages cannot
> | be a standard. It is FUD. It is a scandal, and a digital wart
> | in the industry. 6000 pages cannot be reputed conformant by
> | anybody else than their author. And their author is Microsoft.
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> http://www.libervis.com/blogs/5/charles
a_cathedral_of_formats_or_a_castle_of_cards
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> | [Microsoft:] "For example, we should take the lead in establishing a
> | [common
> | approach to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part).
> | Our efforts to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only
> | incidental- ly on the rest of the industry. We want to own these
> | standards, so we sho- uld not participate in standards groups. Rather,
> | we should call 'to me' to the industry and set a standard that works now
> | and is for everyone's benefit. We are large enough that this can work."
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> http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip
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> Red Hat sets limits to Microsoft interoperability spiel
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> | Red Hat will only sign an interoperability agreement with Microsoft if
> | it is based entirely on open standards, the company's executive vice
> | president of Engineering Paul Cormier told vnunet.com.
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> http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2189545
red-hat-sets-limits-microsoft
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