How about, what's Bob Sutor (And everyone else) tired of?
Really, advocating OOXML is quite a low thing to do by now. We do not
need more than one standard and MS' attempt to take over the ISO are
all but harming ISO, ECMA and MS' images.
Regarding to your strawman about IBM's OSP being the same as MS',
here's a little gift from you: IBM and Sun both have implemented the
specs under the GPL, MS hasn't , as a matter of fact, all what MS got
about the GPL in the OSP FAQ is actually a long, complicated way of
saying "If a developer wants to use the GPL to implement this spec, it
is HIS problem".
Anyways I find something that's quite funny, MS and friends are
attempting to look like everybody is biased against them, it is a
fallacious argument, but still... Even if IBM and Sun's actions were
equal to MS (and they aren't) the FLOSS community got plenty of
reasons for this 'bias' , MS got a heck load of precedents of abusive
behavior, and betrayal. As a matter of fact, although MS would like to
appear otherwise, they have not changed at all, all the Novell and
other distros' deals, behavior with Silverlight and OOXML, for example
show that we still got the old, abusive MS among us attempting to be
our feudal lord by adding taxes to the usage of computer hardware.
On Mar 15, 4:28 pm, Tim Smith <reply_in_gr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Bob Sutor's blog (<http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/>), every
> article currently on the front page allows comments, except for one.
> That one is about criticism of Microsoft's Open XML patent pledge.
>
> Is he afraid that someone will point out that IBM's patent pledge has
> exactly the same problems? Of course, it is just a coincidence that IBM
> is his employer...
>
> --
> --Tim Smith
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