The mysterious force driving open source
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| A consensus supports Windows and Office as desktop standards, but
| because these are proprietary and Microsoft always seeks to extend
| them (as with its recent XML implementation) the market benefits of
| this consensus are subject to debate.
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| [...]
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| But consensus, as a force, is not going away. Its power is only
| going to grow. And this, as much as anything else, will continue
| driving open source forward.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1059
Consensus is the real inconvenient truth
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| The same weapons used by Microsoft against open source are being
| deployed by politicians, businesses and interest groups against
| the demands of consensus on policy. Thus it is that computing,
| business, economics and politics share a single inconvenient truth.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1061
Related:
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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 incidentally
|on the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
|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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