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CompTIA Breakaway: Open Source Misses Big Opportunity
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| CompTIA Breakaway, held in Orlando, Florida, this week, was a successful
| conference for hundreds of VARs and managed service providers. Foolishly,
| open source companies that need channel strategies skipped the show. Here’s
| why The VAR Guy was alarmed.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/06/comptia-breakaway-open-source-misses-big-opportunity/#comment-77547
Microsoft creates open-source lab in RP
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| Microsoft is now preaching interoperability, announcing it will open its
| first open-source lab in Asia Pacific in the country.
|
| [...]
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| An upcoming update to Microsoft Office, for example, will enable support for
| the Open Document Format (ODF), which rivals Microsoft's Open Office XML.
|
| Abet Dela Cruz, Microsoft Philippines platform strategy manager, said
| Microsoft now recognizes open source as a "first class" citizen, alluding to
| the movement's growth and adoption.
|
| To support this claim, he noted SourceForge, an online repository of
| applications built by the open source community. Out of 147,000 projects, he
| said 77,000 of these applications run on the Windows platform, which far
| outnumbers those built for Windows alone.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080807-153256/Microsoft-creates-open-source-lab-in-RP
Microsoft wants FOSS to just run on Windows.
Recent:
Embrace the Reality and Logic of Choice
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| Another neo-colonialist press release from Microsoft's CompTIA lobbying arm,
| this time inveighing against South Africa's adoption of ODF as a national
| standard. One way to point out the absurdity of their logic is to replace the
| reference to ODF with references to any other useful standard that a
| government might adopt, like electrical standards.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/04/embrace-reality-and-logic-of-choice.html
Multiple Standards according to ECMA
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| On a Microsoft event in Portugal, called TechDays 2008, ex-ECMA and now
| CompTIA (Microsoft lobbyst group) member, Jan van den Beld explains how
| multiple standards come to be on ECMA
|
| [...]
|
| What does Jan van den Beld - former Secretary General of ECMA - have to say
| about multiple standards? He seems to be puzzled himself!
|
| Quote from his presentation:
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| Q: Why do you want to have 5 [DVD related] formats? Do you still call that
| standardization?
| A: You are well paid. Shut up
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| Check out the video at 4:10 and amaze yourself!
|
| This was on Microsoft Techdays 2008, in Portugal.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49659/multiple-standards-according-to-ecma
The commercial value of ISO privileged access
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| Jan van den Beld 'sents love letters' to the ISO system and leaches out
| against parties who want to appeal.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-50865/the-commercial-value-of-iso-privileged-access
Return of the Living Dead - Brainless Attack on MoSTI - Part Deux!!!
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| I dont know what the attraction is, but somehow we all love the morbid
| fascination of Zombies in action. First, Microsoft^H^H^H^H^HCompTIA hires Mr
| Jan van der Beld, Ex-Ecma Secretary General, to fly all the way here in KL,
| for an event supposedly about "good multiple standards". There he challenges
| us to find a better way to Fast Track large, immature vendor dependent
| specifications. The answer is of course: "Don't do it." Later on that same
| day, like a man possessed, he turns up at a PIKOM meeting only to rant and
| thump tables.
|
| Then today, in our fantastic broadsheet turned tabloid "The New Straits
| Times" features a "Comment" by our so called "cooler head" Datuk Dr Mohd
| Ariffin Aton entitled "Walking the Talk on neutrality policy". If you've
| forgotten about him, you may be forgiven, but he is or rather WAS the CEO if
| SIRIM Bhd.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/return-of-the-l.html
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