Never, ever, feel tempted to write the word 'Microsoft' with a dollar sign instead of an 's'. It wasn't even funny the first time, several decades ago, and it just makes you look like a prat.
metaphysical question for you: If you take an MSOOXML.NET spreadsheet file created in Excel 2007 and open it under an indemnified copy of gnumeric then we might have a situation where though we cannot know these OLE binary-blobs as things in themselves, we must yet be in a position at least to think them as things in themselves; otherwise we should be landed in the absurd conclusion that there can be appearance without anything that appears
So there you have it, a mouthful of philosophical nonsense . I bet you wanted to spend your time doing something else, like making out with your girlfriend (haha, just kidding, if you actually reading my opinion you have no girlfriend to make out with).
EXCELent. Thats the quote from my sig on the frontpage of Groklaw and posted here, using my paraphrasing to squeeze it into/.'s sig limits. The forbes article from 2004 is truly wonderful in showing how inept (or greedy) novll's management were in their M$ dealings. Martin Taylor spelt out the whole gameplan years earlier but still they walk into Balmer's trap - novll doesn't care about betrayal, unless it affects their bottom line. novll screwed someone to make money, great! Money is good. No need to read any more of this, there can't possibly be any negative consequences.
Don't worry about novll's management woes "I'm very confident the Novell management will find a competent successor very quickly. After all, there are lots of extremely skilled people over there in the Ximian division." - Hubert Mantel
'It has been my experience that if you worry too much about consequences, it's very hard to have any ethics at all. The trick is to decide what is right, and then do it, regardless.'- pj
So there you have it, a mouthful of personal opinions. I bet you wanted to spend your time doing something else, like making out with your girlfriend (haha, just kidding, if you actually reading my opinion you have no girlfriend to make out with).
There is this awful `miguel (7116)' troll account. The account is an impersonator, I do not know who it is And his views have nothing to do with mine. The slashdot admins have said that they can not do anything about it.
This is a shame, because that person has been flaming everywhere
A patch will be available for Gnumeric soon, we always aim to be bug for bug compatible with premium dominant Microsoft products; it is what our Novell.NET customers are demanding. Hopefully going forward MSOOXML can be ammended with a tag MULTIPLYWRONGLIKEEXCEL2007 so the spreadsheets our customers are creating today will always be openable in future with maximum backwards compatibity.
Novell : Need I say more? They provoked a version upgrade to the GPL2 by their sleazy dealings and destroyed a decent distro, namely SuSE. After kindly enacting a suicide of their own Novell Netware.
Bought SuSE and open sourced YaST, employ a few kernel devs, a lot of GNOME devs, and are the second largest contributor to OpenOffice.org. Definitely evil.
Quite right, before Novell purchaced SuSe there was no KDE distro to run your enterprise aspx websites, and it is certainly true that without novells influence the blessed SuSe version of openoffice.org would struggle to open MSOOXML2007draft.NET format documents. Also Thanks to novell all linux users get a green light to download silverlight.NET plugin (note: if you download this plugin from somewhere other than Microsoft of Novell then YOU ARE A CRIMINAL and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law - have a nice day)
"Actually, he really did get the gig at MS -- he just told the rest of us otherwise."
So there you have it, a mouthful of personal opinions. I bet you wanted to spend your time doing something else, like making out with your girlfriend (haha, just kidding, if you actually reading my opinion on OOXML you have no girlfriend to make out with).
Don't f**k with me Ladies and gentlemen, I am the Novell Vice President!
I've developed in both formats, and ODF uses consistent naming conventions and builds upon existing standards whereas OOXML is exceedingly inconsistent (google: "sz" node) and it comes with a lot of new standards.
Dude, I actually *wrote* a spreadsheet and I actually *know* how the formula implementations came to be. There was a lot of guessing and reverse engineering to get those in place.
My point, which you sophistically tried to ignore is that ODF lack of fundamental pieces of the standard would not allow for an implementation based on the spec without resorting to third parties that have reverse engineered the code.
Other than trumpeting ODF, have you actually contributed *ANY* code to OpenOffice, or you are just another armchair general?
just a reminder, if you are using the latest SuSe.NeT beta and having problems with moonlight.NET - specifically slow-ugly scalable font rendering - then you should try dowloading 'Microsoft Core Office-Open Access Fonts' using YAST.
Many of Novell's greatest minds are working on the Microsoft patent-pact problem. Everyday we study the new GPL version 3, and consult with the MS legal department. I believe time is on our side, there has to be a loophole - someday I shall find that weakness and use all my cunning to twist it and exploit it to our purposes and profit.
I'm very confident the Novell team will find a viable weakness in GPL3 very quickly. After all, there are lots of extremely skilled people over here in the former Ximian division.
Get over the stupidity that Novell somehow is in bed with MS. They made an agreement to indemnify their users. They are not shills for MS and told MS and Linux users explicitly that MS is full of crap (OK, figuratively) and that Linux is not infringing on any MS patents. If you want to be a troll, be a smarter one. Otherwise, stop KDE, OPENOFFICE and SAMBA, the kernel and a shitload of other products that Novell contributes PILES of money and development to or be considered a hypocrite. Novell does support the F/OSS community. They fought SCO, support OOXML, fund moonlight.NET, and develop Exchange conncetors for Evolution - and were doing what they thought was a good idea for their user base. I frankly don't think they deserve the backlash they are getting. Get over it. AAAGGGGGHGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
"Novell haven't the faintest idea how to promote and articulate SUSE (do most people even know it's SUSE outside the geek community?) and are bleeding the people who can at a rapid rate, at least the ones I know."
I'm very confident the Novell management will find competent Managers to promote and articulate SUSE very quickly. After all, there are lots of extremely skilled people over in the Ximian division.
In my early job hunts, Microsoft was the most obvious fit - I'm not a very innovative guy. But, I think my brief time at Micosoft has played a vital part in my career development.
the [xbox 360] console has turned out to be the most poorly designed console in history. Nothing even comes close to the 30 to 40 percent failure rate of the 360.
Ha, its even worse than that: 30-40% is the PRfluff figure they are currently spinning but that is the current failure rate over 12 months. Microsofts own projected failure rate over three years is 100%. Yeah if you have a console now it will need to repaired over the next three years, unless you are win-the-lottery lucky or live in an igloo.
Hubert Mantel is a public hero, be in no doubt. But please don't use M$ in a serious context, I don't appreciate it. Sadly Novell is still using Nat Friedman, as the public apologist for the patent agreement. His arguments are untenable and I think his ethical position stinks. Jeremy Allison's GPL v3 announcements (which I applaud), should reinforce this. Nat should resign too.
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If you care about cow-dynamos then you have no girlfriend
Mono.NET will have the MSOOXML.NET classes sometime in the next six months (thats about one Nat Friedman standard unit). btw yhng
Never, ever, feel tempted to write the word 'Microsoft' with a dollar sign instead of an 's'. It wasn't even funny the first time, several decades ago, and it just makes you look like a prat.
metaphysical question for you:
If you take an MSOOXML.NET spreadsheet file created in Excel 2007 and open it under an indemnified copy of gnumeric then we might have a situation where though we cannot know these OLE binary-blobs as things in themselves, we must yet be in a position at least to think them as things in themselves; otherwise we should be landed in the absurd conclusion that there can be appearance without anything that appears
So there you have it, a mouthful of philosophical nonsense . I bet you wanted to spend your time doing something else, like making out with your girlfriend (haha, just kidding, if you actually reading my opinion you have no girlfriend to make out with).
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EXCELent. Thats the quote from my sig on the frontpage of Groklaw and posted here, using my paraphrasing to squeeze it into /.'s sig limits. The forbes article from 2004 is truly wonderful in showing how inept (or greedy) novll's management were in their M$ dealings. Martin Taylor spelt out the whole gameplan years earlier but still they walk into Balmer's trap - novll doesn't care about betrayal, unless it affects their bottom line. novll screwed someone to make money, great! Money is good. No need to read any more of this, there can't possibly be any negative consequences.
Don't worry about novll's management woes "I'm very confident the Novell management will find a competent successor very quickly. After all, there are lots of extremely skilled people over there in the Ximian division." - Hubert Mantel
'It has been my experience that if you worry too much about consequences, it's very hard to have any ethics at all. The trick is to decide what is right, and then do it, regardless.'- pj
you are infringing 243 of our patents - how you like them apples
So there you have it, a mouthful of personal opinions. I bet you wanted to spend your time doing something else, like making out with your girlfriend (haha, just kidding, if you actually reading my opinion you have no girlfriend to make out with).
There is this awful `miguel (7116)' troll account. The account is an impersonator, I do not know who it is And his views have nothing to do with mine. The slashdot admins have said that they can not do anything about it.
This is a shame, because that person has been flaming everywhere
whoops, forgot to log on
A patch will be available for Gnumeric soon, we always aim to be bug for bug compatible with premium dominant Microsoft products; it is what our Novell.NET customers are demanding. Hopefully going forward MSOOXML can be ammended with a tag MULTIPLYWRONGLIKEEXCEL2007 so the spreadsheets our customers are creating today will always be openable in future with maximum backwards compatibity.
then you have no girlfriend
If you care about my opinion, you have no girlfriend.
So there you have it, a mouthful of personal opinions. I bet you wanted to spend your time doing something else, like making out with your girlfriend (haha, just kidding, if you actually reading my opinion on OOXML you have no girlfriend to make out with).
Don't f**k with me Ladies and gentlemen, I am the Novell Vice President!
It is true. See this journal entry from july. Brown and proud.
Dude, I actually *wrote* a spreadsheet and I actually *know* how the formula implementations came to be. There was a lot of guessing and reverse engineering to get those in place.
My point, which you sophistically tried to ignore is that ODF lack of fundamental pieces of the standard would not allow for an implementation based on the spec without resorting to third parties that have reverse engineered the code.
Other than trumpeting ODF, have you actually contributed *ANY* code to OpenOffice, or you are just another armchair general?
just a reminder, if you are using the latest SuSe.NeT beta and having problems with moonlight.NET - specifically slow-ugly scalable font rendering - then you should try dowloading 'Microsoft Core Office-Open Access Fonts' using YAST.
Many of Novell's greatest minds are working on the Microsoft patent-pact problem. Everyday we study the new GPL version 3, and consult with the MS legal department. I believe time is on our side, there has to be a loophole - someday I shall find that weakness and use all my cunning to twist it and exploit it to our purposes and profit.
I'm very confident the Novell team will find a viable weakness in GPL3 very quickly. After all, there are lots of extremely skilled people over here in the former Ximian division.
Get over the stupidity that Novell somehow is in bed with MS. They made an agreement to indemnify their users. They are not shills for MS and told MS and Linux users explicitly that MS is full of crap (OK, figuratively) and that Linux is not infringing on any MS patents.
If you want to be a troll, be a smarter one. Otherwise, stop KDE, OPENOFFICE and SAMBA, the kernel and a shitload of other products that Novell contributes PILES of money and development to or be considered a hypocrite.
Novell does support the F/OSS community. They fought SCO, support OOXML, fund moonlight.NET, and develop Exchange conncetors for Evolution - and were doing what they thought was a good idea for their user base. I frankly don't think they deserve the backlash they are getting. Get over it. AAAGGGGGHGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Harmless fun, anyway it seems to have amused the Jeremy Allison troll
In my early job hunts, Microsoft was the most obvious fit - I'm not a very innovative guy. But, I think my brief time at Micosoft has played a vital part in my career development.
Ha, its even worse than that: 30-40% is the PRfluff figure they are currently spinning but that is the current failure rate over 12 months. Microsofts own projected failure rate over three years is 100%. Yeah if you have a console now it will need to repaired over the next three years, unless you are win-the-lottery lucky or live in an igloo.
All 11.6 million Xbox 360s are faulty
Software giant admits there are 11.6 million faulty consoles sold in the past 19 months, will have to be fixed
EB Games in Australia has issued a recall on every single premium Xbox 360 its stores had in stock - July 16, 2007!!!!
First, XBox sucked up one billion dollars from our company and broke that division's wallet. Now is 360 going to break our heart, too? The Long $1,000,000,000 Kiss Goodnight: now come on, how can you have to put aside $1,000,000,000 to cover faulty Xbox 360s - minimsft - who'da'punk (microsoft insider blog)
Hubert Mantel is a public hero, be in no doubt. But please don't use M$ in a serious context, I don't appreciate it. Sadly Novell is still using Nat Friedman, as the public apologist for the patent agreement. His arguments are untenable and I think his ethical position stinks. Jeremy Allison's GPL v3 announcements (which I applaud), should reinforce this. Nat should resign too.