On Nov 27, 9:08 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> ____/ Ramon F Herrera on Tuesday 27 November 2007 22:19 : \____
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> > On Nov 26, 5:49 pm, Erik Funkenbusch <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:49:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> > ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words (an eBook in Process)
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> >> > ,----[ Quote ]
> >> >| There is little question, I think, that regardless of where and how this
> >> >| saga ends, it will be studied in business schools and by economists for
> >> >| decades to
> >> >| come. What they will conclude will depend in part upon the materials we
> >> >| leave behind for them to work with. That's one of the reasons I'm
> >> >| launching
> >> >| this effort now, as a publicly posted eBook in progress, rather than
> >> >| waiting until some indefinite point in the future to reconnect with the
> >> >| players in this drama to mine their recollections of what they were
> >> >| thinking and doing at the time, by then colored by the passage of time
> >> >| and the influence of later events.
> >> > `----
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> >> >http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007112...
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> >> Oh, please. This is going to be little more than an autobiography.
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> >> Andy Updegrove is the primary lawyer for OASIS, who promotes ODF. Is there
> >> any doubt that this "book" will be anything more the existing FUD he and
> >> others with a financial stake in ODF have been spreading for years.
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> > Yawn... We all know that, Funkenbusch... but we also wonder:
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> > Where is the equivalent book by Microsoft Press?
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> > (or any of its multiple parasitic organizations)?
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> > The truth is that they don't have any material to write such book. If
> > they ever write it, it can be used in court against them.
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> Never live in houses made of glass.
... unless you are a plant.
And this guy Ken Brown was exactly that; planted that is.
-RFH
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