____/ Linonut on Saturday 24 May 2008 15:26 : \____
> http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history
>
> Contents
>
> * 1 A History of MS' Standards 'Dirty Tricks'
> o 1.1 Standards Bodies and Windows APIs
> o 1.2 Standards covered
> * 2 MS OfficeOpenXML
> o 2.1 Licensing
> o 2.2 (In-)Compatibility with other standards
> o 2.3 Office2007 implementation
> o 2.4 Alternative Implementations
> o 2.5 Summary and epilogue
> * 3 MPEG
> * 4 OpenDoc
> * 5 HTML and WWW
> * 6 Kerberos standard with proprietary extension
> * 7 The Sender ID flap
> * 8 Ecmascript
> * 9 RTF
> * 10 LDAP
> * 11 CIFS
> * 12 OpenGL
> * 13 C#/CLI
> * 14 .NET
> * 15 Java
> * 16 ODBC API
> * 17 ActiveX standardization
> * 18 NTP, the Network Time Protocol
> * 19 RIFF (WAV)
> * 20 VFAT
> * 21 C++
> * 22 RC4 encryption
> * 23 Rdesktop
> * 24 Boot sector pain
> * 25 PNG
>
> Not sure if it is truly comprehensive, though. For instance, I see nothing
> in the above list about
>
> * Violating non-disclosure agreements
> * Buying out the competition and killing them
> * Using brain-drain on the competition
> * Slinging mud, astroturfing, channel-stuffing, stove-piping, and
> legal threats (direct, via press release, and by proxy)
> * Strong-arming vendors
> * Cooking their accounting numbers (pretty standard for all business,
> I suppose)
>
> But, I suppose Grok's list is a technical list. So here's another:
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
>
> Microsoft Litigation.
>
> Teach me Billy! Teach me!
>
Speaking of compendiums, someone sent me this one this morning, to be
maintained as a static page. Lots packed in one single page.
http://boycottnovell.com/microsoft-critique-resources/
Hopefully she'll keep it updated.
--
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