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A Look At MS's MA Talking Points

Posted by Zonk on from the deconstruction dept.

tbray writes "It may not be a Halloween Document, but one of the lobby groups in the thick of the Massachusetts office-doc standardization fray passed me 'The Other Side's Talking Points', so I've published (and slightly deconstructed) them with a barnyard-animal picture." From the article: "The direction toward interoperability using XML data standards is clearly a good one. However, limiting the document formats to the OpenOffice format is unnecessary, unfair and gives preferential treatment for specific vendor products, and prohibits others. The proposed approach and process for use of XML data is quite open to multiple standards, yet the proposed standard for documents is quite narrow, preferential, and may not enable optimal use of the data-centric standards."

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  1. Re:Well, guess what by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hey, i was quoting FROM THE SUMMARY. so don't bitch at me.

    --
    Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
  2. translation by sum.zero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "i was to lazy to verify the information given to me [despite the link] before i offered an opinion about it."

    that's not a very good excuse ;P

    sum.zero

  3. Re:FUD, Lies, and More FUD by mrons · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    .. reaching a compromise with Microsoft is like reaching a compromise with cannibals that they will only eat your right arm.

    MS are not that generous. It's more like that they promise to eat your right arm first.

  4. Re:FUD, Lies, and More FUD by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Remember that reaching a compromise with Microsoft is like reaching a compromise with cannibals that they will only eat your right arm.

    With the fine-print caveat that they will kill you first anyway.