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Intel Joins LibreOffice
New submitter dgharmon writes "The month of February is a month to remember for the LibreOffice project. They formally incorporated the foundation in Berlin, released 3.5 with major changes and now Intel is joining the foundation as a member. Intel will also make available the LibreOffice for Windows from SUSE in Intel AppUp center. Intel AppUp Center is an online repository designed for Intel processor-based devices."
Just because Google is evil doesn't make Microsoft less evil. It just makes them both evil. A trivial perusal of the Web would bring up information about why Microsoft is considered evil. Here is a light selection of keywords for you to start your research with: anti-trust; illegal use of monopoly; linux is cancer; ISO document standard bribery; Open Document Format vs OpenXML; licensing of MFC to crunch Borland and promote MFC over (the vastly superior) OWL; payment of computer manufacturers to bundle Windows instead of open competition; removal of Linux from Asus Eee; deliberatly hobbling OpenGL on Windows; deliberately hobbing POSIX-compliance on Windows (Windows needs POSIX for US Government contracts); deliberately hobbling Java on Windows (which Microsoft lost a court case against Sun over - but the tactic worked long enough for Microsoft to derive the essentially Windows-only C# and the .NET platform from Java and the JVM); Microsoft's attempts in the mid-90's to stiffle the open Internet by promoting NetBUI etc instead of open protocols (something they had to do a volte face about); trying to tie the open internet to Windows through ActiveX and Internet Explorer 6 proprietary extensions (which Bill Gates also famously lied about saying IE could not be removed from the O/S); I could go on but it ought to be enough if you have been paying attention for the last two decades. No one would mind if Microsoft competed hard but fairly. The truth is they don't - they use all sorts of morally shady tactics - which makes them evil. For that matter, neither do Apple. Apple is at least as bad as Microsoft, but at least Apple stuff (mostly) works a lot better. But just because Google and Apple are also evil does not make Microsoft any less evil.