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Groklaw article: Microsoft, antitrust and innovation
[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070923170905803] Microsoft, antitrust and innovation — by Georg C. F. Greve If one were to believe Microsoft, antitrust law is for sore losers who are too lazy to innovate, and the decision of the European Court of Justice against Microsoft … Continue reading
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So this is what hit Microsoft…
The past two months have been interesting in the Chinese sense. A primary culprit of that was Microsoft’s failed attempt to push their proprietary MS-OOXML format through ISO. But there were also talks and meetings with ministers (see [1][2]) to … Continue reading
Tagged Antitrust, EU, Free Software, Fun, Microsoft, Open Standards, UN, WIPO
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The Inquirer on MS-OOXML and ODF
The Inquirer has an interesting opinion piece called "Microsoft twists and turns over ODF" in which they pick up on the MS-OOXML conversion hoax: The problem is that if Robertson and Paoli’s early claim is correct would be theoretically impossible … Continue reading
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MS-OOXML conversion hoax
Microsoft has been quite busy signing up various associates such as Novell, Xandros, Linspire and Turbolinux to work on its MS-OOXML converter. This was somewhat surprising. To make myself clear: It was no surprise that Microsoft would try to enroll … Continue reading
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BBC: Questions for Microsoft on open formats
The BBC just put an article by FSFE media coordinator Joachim Jakobs and myself online in which we respond to an earlier article on a "time bomb" in the UK National Archives. What Microsoft carefully sought to avoid mentioning in … Continue reading
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Massachusetts: thumbs up for lock-in
While FSFE was busy holding its 2007 general assembly in Brussels, Belgium, the world kept spinning. In this case backwards, unfortunately. After the state of Massachusetts had become famous for its clear-sighted move towards Open Standards in general and the … Continue reading
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OLPC = “One License Per Child?”
The past days found me attending the Yale A2K2 conference in New Haven where an insipring group of people were discussing issues of the knowledge society and how to enable Access to Knowledge for everyone. Naturally, Free Software played a … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Microsoft, Politics
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Update on OpenXML vs ODF
Thanks to one of my favorite web comics, Everybody loves Eric Raymond, I discovered two rather interesting articles in the OpenXML and ODF debate. The first article is by Miguel de Icaza from end of January in which he says … Continue reading
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OpenXML back on fast-track
Groklaw has an article that OpenXML is back on the fast-track for ISO certification, ignoring an usually high number of objections from various countries: *She* decided? So the objections process is an elaborate waltz with no purpose? Why even have … Continue reading
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Irony, cynicism or simply “cara de pau”?
Imagine a fox building “fox and chicken can be friends” ads from the feathers of slaughtered chicken. Would this be irony or cynicism, or possibly both? I had the same problem when I saw the following ad: Microsoft is a … Continue reading
Tagged Fun, Idiocies, Microsoft, Open Standards
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