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IBM Beats Microsoft Over the Head With Their Own Code
bednarz writes "IBM has added a twist to its new commitment to help OpenOffice.org battle Microsoft Office by donating code that was originally derived in part from a Microsoft-developed technology. IBM's iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document Format (ODF)-compliant applications and was developed in part using Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA). 'When the specification was donated to the Linux Foundation, Oracle, Sun, and SAP committed to help with future development. Mozilla is committed to incorporating it into its Firefox browser, and vendors GW Micro and Freedom Scientific will also use it in their own screen reader products. In addition, Project Missouri has won accolades from the American Association of People with Disabilities, the American Foundation for the Blind, and the National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science.'"
This is now even more promising: a Microsoft spec, Lotus Notes code and a Brooksian army of offshored developers! It's hard to imagine how this couldn't work!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Quite agree, that was my first thought - its pathetic. Only when \. editors, \. readers (but not all) and article writers learn to grow and have a civil discussion about whats going on in the computer industry will MS (and other corporate) take notice of what you say.
I'm going to fucking kill the blind!!!!!!!!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I don't know what this "backslashdot" you speak of is, but it sounds bad.
Send email from the afterlife! Write your e-will at Dead Man's Switch.
It's the bizarro-slashdot. Interesting stories. Expertly-edited summaries. Insightful and intelligent discussion.
Who cares? I'm sure folks at IBM are probably using XP machines, and probably MS-Word to write up the stinging, anti-Microsoft press releases ...
Ha! Take another gulp of your own closed-source medicine, you MSFT cretins! Sweeeeeet Justice!!!
[cue maniacal laughter]
yawn.
Yeah? Well I think you're overrated too.
Unfortunately it is filled with Microsoft zealots and Linux shills >_>
With regards to TFA, would you really WANT Microsoft code in anything? Ack.
which is totally what she said
You've just hit on my current hell.
Only this hell is a Labview Excel hell when it should be a Labview => Matlab => Database hell.
These men that created this files are my friends. I've worked with them for over 15 years. I probably was in the room smoking the same crack.
I still don't know why in the fuck we decided to do what we did and I now hate everyone involved.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.