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Microsoft accuses IBM of OOXML failure

Michael Kallas

Saturday 02 February 2008

Microsoft whines about IBM playing unfair to them and by doing this admit that OOXML is about pushing it as a "product" securing its profit stream, no more, no less.

I particularly like that quote: "It is war. I am sorry if it is too hard for you."

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Comments

market vs. policy

ciaran

Wednesday 06 February 2008

MS would love this to be seen as an MS vs. IBM issue. If they can convince people that campaigning against OOXML amounts to doing free lobbying work for IBM, that would discourage a lot of people. Our reaction has to be that this isn't MS vs. IBM, this is about all companies and individuals being about to take part in the development of useful software.

And the recently announced Document Freedom Day for March 26th should help that:
http://www.documentfreedom.org/

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