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Alpha-lunatic attack on Digistan and the Hague declaration
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| Dennis Byron explained "Google, IBM, Red Hat, Sun and the Digistan
| Connection".
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-59912/alpha-lunatic-attack-on-digistan-and-the-hague-declaration
That Dennis Byron is quite a phenomenon. Spotted long ago and been labelled an
anti-ODF voice.
A Blog Rant from Absurdistan
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| Well, you can't argue with the opening statement: given Microsoft's trashing
| of the ISO process for the sake of having its OOXML format blessed, any group
| in favour of “free and open standards” must, I suppose, by logical necessity
| by be anti-Microsoft – and especially anti-Microsoft (MSFT).
|
| [...]
|
| Which is doubtless true if we're talking about “our” Microsoft (MSFT) shares,
| since the net effect of Digistan will be to make people aware of open
| alternatives to Windows and Office lock-in, causing them to shovel less of
| their money into the Microsoft (MSFT) maw, with terrible knock-on
| consequences for those (MSFT) share values.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-rant-from-absurdistan.html
He used to work at IDC.
Related:
The Fog of War and a Ray of Light
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| Meanwhile, an analyst named Dennis Byron launched a series of startling
| articles on OOXML. In one, he incredibly railed against Microsoft
| for “wasting stockholder value” on standards. In another, he launched wild
| allegations against IBM that are totally at odds with all facts of which I
| have personal knowledge.
|
| It’s all very depressing, as well as predictable. And it won’t be over until
| it’s over on March 29. Except, of course, it won’t be over then, either.
| The battle at then hand will simply be the next battle, as the forces
| withdraw briefly from the field of this last one while the votes are counted.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080319171133815
Microsoft's Sponsored OOXML Study
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| Today, Microsoft made available an IDC study about so-called open desktop
| file formats. It's yet another Microsoft propaganda effort, as a crucial
| format standards vote approaches.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/microsofts_sponsored_ooxml_study.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2tx9eo
IDC pronounces Linux unimportant to European economy [in Microsoft-commissioned
study]
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| A recent IDC white paper on the economic impact of Microsoft's super
| soaraway new Vista operating system seems to be lacking one crucial
| ingredient -- other operating systems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34542
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