Standards should be allowing open markets to flourish and they can't do this if the depend solely on a given operating system, environment or application. They can't do this when they allow proprietary extensions willy nilly. Where's this mentioned in the FAQ?
The "market place" didn't decide diddley squat. ISO had a opportunity to give the âoemarket placeâ a chance but instead decided to assist a proven abusive and monopolistic company in it's bid to remain to moving target when it comes to being interoperable and compatible.
How the hell does ISO get it's funding anyway? I sure hope it ain't public. The funding should be cut off. Anyways, I'm sure Microsoft will be more than willing to take up the slack.
You can't punish them enough to dissuade them from this, not monetarily anyway. They would of gladly paid 30 billion for it. It meant the world to them. They we're freakin.
Actually, it's not the "latest chapter in the developing relationship between law enforcement and robotic assistants". It's the latest chapter in the developing relationship between U.S. lawmakers and their corporate benefactors.
--bj
Both ODF and MS-OOXML are covered by patents. Hasn't Sun, IBM, etal. issued "covenants not to sue" that apply to ODF as well? In simple english, can someone please explain the difference? Why are Sun covenants GPL friendly and Microsoft's not?
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Standards should be allowing open markets to flourish and they can't do this if the depend solely on a given operating system, environment or application. They can't do this when they allow proprietary extensions willy nilly. Where's this mentioned in the FAQ? The "market place" didn't decide diddley squat. ISO had a opportunity to give the âoemarket placeâ a chance but instead decided to assist a proven abusive and monopolistic company in it's bid to remain to moving target when it comes to being interoperable and compatible. How the hell does ISO get it's funding anyway? I sure hope it ain't public. The funding should be cut off. Anyways, I'm sure Microsoft will be more than willing to take up the slack.
You can't punish them enough to dissuade them from this, not monetarily anyway. They would of gladly paid 30 billion for it. It meant the world to them. They we're freakin.
Actually, it's not the "latest chapter in the developing relationship between law enforcement and robotic assistants". It's the latest chapter in the developing relationship between U.S. lawmakers and their corporate benefactors. --bj
Both ODF and MS-OOXML are covered by patents. Hasn't Sun, IBM, etal. issued "covenants not to sue" that apply to ODF as well? In simple english, can someone please explain the difference? Why are Sun covenants GPL friendly and Microsoft's not?