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Re: [News] Novell's Michael Meeks -- Another OOXML Embracer (Like Miguel "Superb Standar^Hd" de Icaza)

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 27 September 2007 23:34 : \____
> 
>> Kier wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:06:04 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Killing Microsoft's Clippy with open source
>>>>> 
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | Michael Meeks has a tough job. Anyone who's struggled with making
>>>>> | documents not created in the Word interface with Microsoft Office
>>>>> | should be able to sympathise.
>>>>> `----
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39289664,00.htm?r=3
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So where exactly did you find that he is a "Another OOXML Embracer"?
>>> 
>>> Not in this article, certianly.
>> 
>> Exactly. Roy has been making stuff up.
>> He is like Mark Kent: Mindlessly hating Novell. Because Novell acted
>> different than the GPL3-mob wanted them to do
>> 
>>> Good interview, BTW.
>> 
>> Yes, it is. It takes quite a lot of mindless hatred to read idiocy
>> like "Another OOXML Embracer" into it
>> 
>> Roy, whatever you did smoke: Leave it to cretins like DFS or billwg.
>> It is bad for linux when "advocates" (you *do* advocacy, do you?) are
>> outright lying and misrepresenting what people actually say.
> 
> From someone who knows that stuff (not me):
> 
> "And now that I remember well, the guy who wrote the bootstrap is Michael
> Meeks, Novell employee, a contributor to the OpenOffice project (not
> entirely sure if he only contributes to the Novell branch, or to the
> regular OpenOffice branch as well), old contributor of Gnumeric, close
> friend of Miguel."
> 
> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/05/silverlight-mono-novell/#comment-1949
> 

Ah yes. So allegedly being a friend of Miguel is the same thing as
being "Another OOXML Embracer"

Tell you what, Roy: When you have grown your very first braincell, come
back. Until then, just leave the telling lies and misrepresentations to
DFS, Erik F or Hadron Quark and their ilk. They are used to it
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