In article <2509053.kIdPPqOTkA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Which reminds me... Matt Asay, whom some people consider an open
> source 'zealot', is also very hypocritical. Like many others, while he
> advocated Free software, he raves about Macs and buys everything at the Apple
> shrine (or "toy shop", depending on your perspective). As far as lock-ins go,
> Apple is worse than Microsoft. Why do people give them money? Just because
> it's not Microsoft?
How's that different from your hypocrisy? You claim to champion open
standards, but support ODF, which is not fully open. It's not open
because Sun retains veto power over any new versions of it through their
patent license. (Their patent grant only covers version 1.0, and any
subsequent versions that they participate in the development of. If
they decide they don't like the direction the community wants to go with
any subsequent version of ODF, they simply can not participate in its
development, and then their patents prevent it from being used).
You've bitched repeatedly about Microsoft's .NET patents, which are much
more liberally licensed for free software than Sun's ODF patents.
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--Tim Smith
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