On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:13:56 UTC, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
-> * Ramon F Herrera peremptorily fired off this memo:
->
-> > "Microsoft's "significant" announcement on February 21 turns out to be
-> > not so significant at all. Microsoft is promising -- for the umpteenth
-> > time -- that it will share all the protocols and programming interfaces
-> > needed to allow interoperability between its products and others."
-> >
-> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1207
-> >
-> > How can you tell that Microsoft is lying?
->
-> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080221184924826
->
-> Nobody is buying it. Well. Employees, maybe. Microsoft is once again
-> promising interoperability and adherence to standards, but its own
-> version of each. Interoperability that is safe only for noncommercial
-> software excludes Microsoft's number one competitor, Linux. It is
-> noncommercial and commercial, depending on who is using it. So, right
-> there it tells you that this is a promise to do nothing that matters.
->
-> Microsoft is currently being investigated by the EU Commission
-> regarding the same two issues, interoperability and its behavior
-> pushing MSOOXML as a "standard". This is a promise to remain
-> incompatible with the GPL, as far as I can make out.
->
-> Here's the response from the EU Commission. They totally get that
-> this promise is insufficient. They've heard it before, at least four
-> times. And it doesn't wipe the slate clean regarding past violations,
-> even if they meant it. . . .
->
Maybe m$ft is hoping that bush will be made king of the EC and then
all these pesky investigations will go away like they did when he was
made king of the USA.
The only good micro$oft is a dead one.
Mark
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