Nice Standard You've Got There (Hate to see you use it...)
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| But there is a second point to note, and this one is more revealing, I
| think. For the first time (that I'm aware of), Microsoft started talking in
| the Fortune piece about a specific number of patents -- 45 -- that it
| claims OpenOffice (and presumably any other implementation of ODF) would
| infringe. So on the one hand, Microsoft is saying "Nice standard you've got
| there," while on the other hand, warning "Implement it if you dare, but
| only for a price."
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007051707191643
The cash cow is dying, just like DRM. Countries embrace OpenDocument/PDF and,
either way (whatever happens to oh-oh XML), see the articles below.
Related:
And the centre of your desktop is...
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| We had an overwhelming response to our reader poll in this area with over
| 4,800 of you participating, so thanks to those who took the time.
|
| [...]
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| The only competition at the moment is from open source office suites,
| OpenOffice in particular, which around one in five Reg readers are
| personally using.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/desktop_office_suites/
Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses
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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
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| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has becomep
| henomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html
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