links for 2008-02-22
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| What If Microsoft Gave An Interoperability Party and Nobody Came?
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| Jason Brooks - Open Source - Microsoft’s Interop Forecast Is Partly
| Cloudy
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| “However, the legal environment surrounding interoperability between
| Microsoft’s products and the open-source applications that have sprung
| up to rival Redmond’s proprietary wares is scarcely less murky today
| than it was yesterday.”
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| [...]
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| Microsoft Spins Legal Defeat into PR Fool’s Gold
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| “But if you take a close look at this PR stunt, and that’s all it
| really is, and then look at Microsoft’s long history of making, and
| breaking, interoperability promises, well I don’t believe that for a
| New York minute.”
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| [...]
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| Microsoft Watch - Corporate - Whose Principles Are They?
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| “To be absolutely clear: The announcement about Microsoft’s so-called
| new interoperability push is a public relations ploy, since the company
| touts as a customer benefit something required by European
| trustbusters.”
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| [...]
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| Competitive And Anti-Trust Forces Spur Microsoft’s Openness Pledge —
| Microsoft — InformationWeek
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| “Despite the rhetoric, Microsoft said it will continue to play verbal
| hardball with commercial open source competitors that don’t license the
| company’s intellectual property.”
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| [...]
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| Groklaw - Promises, Promises from Microsoft. Again.
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| “Nobody is buying it. Well. Employees, maybe.”
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| [...]
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| Microsoft pledge excluding primary competitors
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| “If Microsoft truly means to facilitate interoperability and fair
| access they should spare delegates the BRM, retract MS-OOXML from ISO
| and converge this work into the global effort for the Open Document
| Format, the existing Open Standard at ISO for office documents.”
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2071
Yes, Microsoft 'loves' open source. loves to f* it. Maybe.
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