* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> That's why they
> continue to corrupt standards (e.g. Silverlight versus (X)HTML and OOXML
> versus ODF) and try to shove in software patents, essentially turning Free
> software into Fee [sic] software.
Fee software <chuckle>
I'd like an "r", Vanna.
> IBM's VP of OSS and standards reads my blog,
> he dislikes Mono already, and I am hardly surprised that they snubbed SUSE and
> went with RHEL in this case.
> SUSE, like Novell, is now with Microsoft,
Another little money-maker.
> fighting against ODF and assisting OOXML, Silverlight, and patent FUD. Good
> luck to de Icaza as he fights IBM, Google and many others who fight for
> standards. Microsoft loves him. He takes it as a compliment and
> acknowledgement of his accomplishments -- whatever they may be (remember that
> he started GNOME after applying for a job at Microsoft).
Microsoft es mi padrino, jefe.
> Microsoft loves competition.
> "I?d be glad to help tilt lotus into into the death spiral. I could do it
> Friday afternoon but not Saturday. I could do it pretty much any time the
> following week."
> --Brad Silverberg, Microsoft
As I've seen in someone's sig on GrokLaw:
"You are being MICRO-attacked, from all angles, in a SOFT manner."
--
It's a business I don't know anything about, but I admire Bill Gates
enormously. I know him individually, and I think he's incredible in business.
-- Warren Buffett, in lecture at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (1994)
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