In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
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wrote
on Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:33:22 +0100
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> Ian Hilliard <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Moshe, Goldfarb. wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 26 May 2008 04:32:34 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> Good bye, British Library
>>> Not Linux advocacy.
>>> Microsoft paranoia/hate/SPAM
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>> It is indirectly about Linux as it is about Microsoft using its money and
>> associations to try to exclude Linux.
>>
>
> I agree, in fact...
>
> It's quite directly about linux, since the story is also about OOXML,
Um...does the Linux kernel process OOXML or ODF? Maybe at
the bytestream level, but that's about it...and it could
just as easily process a text file, picture file, or even
randomized data at that level.
OK, so I'm being pedantic today. ;-)
> and Microsoft's attempts to corrupt the BSI, ECMA (well, too late there,
> I suppose) and ISO in order to devalue the linux-friendly ODF standard
> by adding a second standard (against ISO rules I think?) which was linux
> unfriendly.
Granted, that's a worry for a (supposedly) free market, which
might make it somewhat relevant here.
>
> Presumably, Mr Farquhar will be looking for new employment? One wonders
> just how much money he wasted in this exercise.
>
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