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Sun Asks China to Merge its Doc Format With ODF
christian.einfeldt writes "Sun's Chairman Scott McNealy has asked the world's most populous nation to merge its Uniform Office Format with the Open Document Format. Tech lawyer Andy Updegrove thinks that McNealy would not have flown to China and taken this chance of rejection if McNealy didn't think that there was a good likelihood of success."
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China will ask for IT concessions from Sun et. al. for this, and they'll promise that they'll keep them all secret, and only use them for in-house stuff. Then, you'll find them on the clone market in 3 months, and we'll discover that the next (in a long series) egregious human rights abuse was made possible by Sun's "shared" technology.
Sun seems great at giving away the store, getting farked over, then crying foul, while their market share and relevance dwindle.
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Please let us not forget that Chinese are extremely good negotiators and bargainers. Look at the way North Korea is playing six countries like a well tuned orchestra. If NKorea can play this well, imagine how well China will play it. It is very much possible it is a negotiating strategy by Chinese to extract maximum benefit of their eventual suitor MSOffice XML. So let us be cautious and see real committment by the Chinese (and India/Kerala, Brazil, and other developing nations/states) before jumping to conclusions. Words are cheap. Pleasant words are even cheaper. Unless these governments put money where their mouth is, Sun will be just another pawn in the games between these governments and Microsoft.
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Sun threatens global warming and heat waves if they do not comply.
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