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Bill Gates Claims OSS Has Poor Interoperability

Posted by timothy on from the intrigued-by-ideas-desire-newsletter dept.

XeRXeS-TCN writes "In yet another example of Bill Gates seemingly 'not getting it' (or getting it just fine and spreading FUD), he has sent out an email to all MSFT's corporate customers, stating that if they are looking for interoperability, they should not look to Linux or OSS software. What he really means of course, is free alternatives trying to interoperate with Microsoft's non-documented proprietary standards."

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  1. Re:This coming from the man... by tehshen · · Score: 5, Informative

    He also brought us Microsoft Word, so uninteroperable with itself you sometimes have to use OpenOffice Writer to recover its documents.

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    Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.