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Microsoft Receives Open Source VIP Blessing
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to let us know that Larry Rosen has given his blessing to the new terms that Microsoft is Making their Office XML Reference Schema available under. Rosen, "the attorney that wrote the book on open source licensing and the man who was the Open Source Initiative's first general counsel and secretary," described this move as the "most significant olive branch to date" to come from the Redmond software giant.
Take a look at Groklaw's comparison of XML formats and tell me if you think MS's XML is human-readable! :o)
So.. it has come to this
You definitely have a point there. Might be something taco should look into? But just remember your point always has more impact when you sign your post with your name and not just AC.
If you believe in it stand up for it don't just hide in the back ground.
It said "windows 98 or better" so I installed Linux
Which is why, the mass gov. wants a standard file format.
You can still have employees do nothing but a spefic format. If they have to switch it enough, then the users will switch office packages. And that issue, is why OO has the ability to choose what is the default format.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
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Clicking on that link brings up a large picture of george harrison, and then comes a javascript alert that takes you to a site called winfix, wether you click 'ok' or 'cancel' which then pops up another javascript prompt that asks you if you want winfix to scan your machine.
The original company name is MicroSoft, hence the abbreviation to MS. Go look at some old MS products, and you will see the original logo.
Did anyone say that this was open source? It's an open specification, not open source — it now allows open source solutions to implement this open specification, too.
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See elsewhere on this thread - he's on top page of http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=george+harrison, that site is devoid of original content and full of adverts, and he runs a spamming company (and writes articles on spamming search engines)...
Actually, it was "Micro-soft", not "MicroSoft", according to my memory and Wikipedia.
As I understand it (imperfectly, for sure) there are legaly significant differences between the XML schema for Office 2003 and the upcoming Office 12.
.doc as their primary format within MS-Office. Near as I can tell, Microsoft is merely trying to cloud the issue in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
There are major differences, both technically and legally, between MS-Office 2003 XML and MS-Office 12 XML. Microsoft is submitting the MS-Office 2003 XML schema to ECMA; so far, they have not indicated they are doing the same with the MSO 12 schema. Also, their covenant not to sue over patents is specific to the 2003 schema. Finally, the 2003 xml schema is optional; it's my understanding that the MSO 12 schema is the primary format for the upcoming version of MS-Office.
Microsoft loses nothing by offering up the 2003 schema as a sacrificial lamb; most people still use
Of course, I could be wrong. But I don't think so.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.