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Microsoft Believes IBM Masterminded Anti-OOXML Initiative

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the may-have-been-some-structural-flaws dept.

mahuyar writes "Microsoft executives have accused IBM of leading the campaign against their initiative to have Office Open XML approved by the International Organization for Standardization. 'Nicos Tsilas, senior director of interoperability and IP policy at Microsoft, said that IBM and the likes of the Free Software Foundation have been lobbying governments to mandate the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard to the exclusion of any other format. "They have made this a religious and highly political debate," Tsilas said. "They are doing this because it is advancing their business model. Over 50 percent of IBM's revenues come from consulting services."'"

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  1. Pity the poor little Microsoft by KublaiKhan · · Score: 5, Funny

    So sad, that such a tiny little garage shop like Microsoft should be beaten up by the big bad IBM.

    Anyone else think that this sounds like whining?

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  2. That's all right... by 26reverse · · Score: 5, Funny

    IBM believes that Microsoft masterminded the Pro-OOXML Initiative.

    1. Re:That's all right... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yup. Direct quote from an IBM official: "They are doing this because it is advancing their business model. Over 50 percent of Microsoft's revenues come from selling Microsoft Office."

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  3. No accusations of "dirty" campaigning by walterbyrd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't see msft accusing IBM of "dirty" campaigning.

    The problem is that another company may be campaigning at all. I mean, how friggin *dare* they! Doesn't IBM know that msft has a sacred right to all PC OSes and office products?

    IBM has already shown itself to have the unmitigated gall to donate IBM's own code to Linux. This prompted msft to fund caldera to file a bogus lawsuit against IBM. According to the original lawsuit, caldera owned UNIX, and therefore anything that ever touched UNIX was also owned by caldera.

    Yet, it spite of being punished, IBM has still not learned their lesson. To do anything that might obstruct msft is an absolute sacrilege! Msft is understandably appalled. Msft will not accept this horrible injustice silently. Msft wants the world to know just how completely unethically IBM is behaving.

    I mean, to try and compete with msft! Of all the bloody nerve