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____/ Richard Rasker on Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:04 : \____
>
> For all those Windows apologists who still maintain that Microsoft's
> pathetic implementation of the ODF standard was the inevitable result
> of "poor specifications":
>
> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/battle-for-odf-interoperability.html
>
> Mr. Weir convincingly explains that *any* standard can be willingly
> sabotaged, even something as simple as a specification of how to add 1 and
> 1. And that's exactly what Microsoft did as they ripped the heart (i.e.
> formulas) out their ODF spreadsheet "support".
>
> These shenanigans once again show that the bastards from Redmond are never
> to be trusted.
Many people including Jeremy Allison agree with Weir, so it's not just IBM
feeling this way. That's the spiel used by Microsoft at the moment
nonetheless.
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