____/ High Plains Thumper on Sunday 16 September 2007 11:38 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Jerry McBride on Sunday:
>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have seen the effects of "embrace, extend, extinguish".
>>>> OOXML's lack of adherence to standards makes it a poor
>>>> model to employ as a standard. Remember, it is possible
>>>> for even Microsoft Office to be ODF compatible (until they
>>>> broke it by bypassing the ODF filter in Office 2007 during
>>>> file opening, rendering it useless).
>>>
>>> Makes for great reading... It's hard to believe that there's
>>> an actual business in filling bittorrent with bogus files...
>>> Amazing.
>>
>> New vids on Monday's decision. FWIW:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arZgBFhMP5g
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDLEN90KO14
>
> Those videos are interesting. I like Commissioner Neelie Kroes'
> comment on the some 12,000 pages plus offers of source code from
> Microsoft. She simply stated, "I prefer quality over quantity."
>
> It shouldn't take 12,000 pages to document network connectivity.
Exactly. And then you have like 30,000 pages of legal documents. They DDOS at
EC.
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