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Denmark Becomes Fourth Nation To Protest OOXML
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The rumors of a fourth OOXML complaint turned out to be true. Denmark has become the fourth nation to protest the ISO's acceptance of OOXML, and Groklaw has a translation of their complaint. They now join India, Brazil, and South Africa. There are going to be plenty of questions about deadlines, because people have been given two different deadlines for appeals, and the final DIS of OOXML was late in being distributed and not widely available. In fact, that seems to be one of Denmark's complaints, along with missing XML schemas, contradictory wording, lack of interoperability, and troubles with the maintenance of DIS29500. In other words, we should expect a lot of wrangling over untested rules from here on out, and Microsoft knows how to deal with that."
they say the want to keep developers but then they do something like VB6 end of life.
They are driving developers to other platforms.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
When they deprecate .NET the squeals will be heard 'round the world. Developers are dumb. Cats are smart. You can't catch the same cat in the same trap twice.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Its neat how any post that says it will be modded down gets modded up. It is a fundamental /. principle. On that not, mod me offtopic, i DARE you.
Dicklick. Lick a dick!
Funny you should mention it, as we actually are dealing with a massive strike here in Denmark at the moment.
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Boycottnovell.com has one of the most constant and in depth coverage of this around the world.
In addition, Boycottnovell now has an IRC channel:
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http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/01/boycottnovell-at-freenode/
Can you cluck like a chicken, Sir Ballmer Who Hides From Eggs As They're Tossed? How many MS shills will post saying, "I also use Linux" like they've been doing now for years while talking shit about Linux? Fuck you shills!