____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 09 January 2008 12:29 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 09 January 2008 04:57 : \____
>>
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> 5 predictions about OOXML in 2008
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | The <NO>OOXML leaders spoke at the 24 Chaos Communication Congress
>>>> | in Berlin just before New Year. They predict that Microsoft will
>>>> | manage to have their broken standard adopted by ISO on the 1st of
>>>> | April 2008, after heavy lobbying and control of the discussions of
>>>> | the Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva.
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> Let's hope that Jody Goldberg gets his precious "documentation". Looks
>>> like he'll need it, thanks to him helping Microsoft to maintain their
>>> dominance.
>>
>> He has denied that OOXML has binary extensions, only later to admit in my
>> blog (I pressured him) that extensions do exist but that he and Michael
>> Meeks have already 'hacked' them. Well, tell that to Google and hundreds of
>> other companies that do office suites that haven't anything to do with
>> Novell... and care about Microsoft patent ambush.
>>
>
> He's pushing a standard which has to be *hacked* in order to make it
> work?
Yes, because they think selfishly. They are close to Microsoft, they have
Microsoft's binaries 'hacked' and they see themselves at a positing of
advantage. Rmember the analogy involving the d0rk and the bully called Big
Mike who 'protects' those who give their lunch money. Novell tried to use ots
deal with Microsoft to gain a similar type of advantage of Red Hat (server)
and Ubuntu (desktop). I wasn't even hiding these intentions#.
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