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We're Open enough, Says Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft Australia has come under fire from rival vendors and open-source advocates for keeping its Office document standards proprietary.
Greg Stone, Microsoft's national technology officer for Australia and New Zealand, faced criticism during his presentation at the Australian Unix User Group conference in Canberra yesterday. However, he stood firm on the company's policy of making the XML schemas for its Office 2003 document standard publicly available provided interested parties sign an agreement with the software heavyweight. "Why should I have to sign an agreement?" one audience member demanded to know."
Just look at IE.
Can one piece of software possibly be more open to exploits and viruses?
"Why should I have to sign an agreement?"
So Microsoft can own your soul, your offsprings' souls, their retroactive grandparents' souls, and the souls of everyone they come in contact with.
In the form of a nice law suit.
our customers are also opened enough....we only have to give them a litle more vaseline to maximize the opening
Well, using GPL fonts in a document means the document has to be open, does it not?
Zero Sum (don't amount to much). [root@localhost]
While we're at it, let's solve world peace! All we need to do is get all the world leaders to sit down and back an idea on how things could be made better...
Ok. I'll make a few phone calls and see what I can do.
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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Root is safe, beta is gold, MS is open enough and MN2004 is coming back on a corrected trajectory. All makes sense.
Free as in costs money
Advantage as in same thing later
We are proud to present
Open as in closed
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