Microsoft Believes IBM Masterminded Anti-OOXML Initiative

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."'"

Comments

Re:Hmmm...

[morgan_greywolf]

I thought only SCO's pathetic supporters with their claims that Groklaw was an IBM front were this warped, but Microsoft, congrats, you've produced the same specimen of irony-meter destroying beastling. All of SCO's pathetic supporters have been shown, in one or another, to be on the Microsoft dole. Where do you think they got their warped viewpoint of the world?

Microsoft is actually one of the most paranoid organizations in the world. It is their culture of paranoia that allowed them to rise to the top and that same culture has kept them there.

Re:It's about the public good as well.

[HeavensBlade23]

If anything OOXML is the pubic good since it sucks dick.