Having a FOSS program takes away revenues from the competition. Hence, they will have less money for R&D, marketing and other business activities to compete in the market place making you stronger and more profitable!
Oh sure, we all rushing to go make edits at Britannica with all their linking and copywrite restrictions: http://corporate.britannica.com/termsofuse.html compared to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights Why work to make them richer?
If they go CC or GNU Free Documentation License, it will be impressive and of course, have a better chance of succeeding...but dont see any evidence this is a route they going.
Sorry, but I find this thread extremely distasteful!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing is a horrible thing and to wish it on anyone!!! And imply that it is OK to do it to poor disfranchised Zimbabweans or Mozambicans is just sickening to me.
Supporting OOXML is a fruitless endevor and plays right into MS hands at the moment. Any form of implmentation/adoption gives MS a card to play at ISO. OOXML was not formated for interoperablity or to be 100% implmented by anyone other than MS. Of cource as Microsoft makes random changes to OOXML as they are positioned to do and it is in their interest, and then MS launches beta Office 2009 with new features, it will just make interoperating more imposible and all the convertor/filters the FOSS community has developed worthless. One will never ever be able to catch up making a decent convertor/filter interoperate with ODF and OOXML. Microsoft can release a new version of Office quicker than it takes to make a high quality convertor.
So why should FOSS keep using its resources to help protect a monopoly. The object is to force MS or create a need for them to help develop ODF since they are a members of OASIS and having ODF as a Native Format in Office.
They might cost 30 to 50 cents a piece but the problem right now is 15 to 30% of the labels dont work for varies reasons http://www.worldlabel.com/rfid/rfid.htm Then you always have a problem of Hacking!! RFID labels being damaged, information being stolen. How they going to solve that?
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Having a FOSS program takes away revenues from the competition. Hence, they will have less money for R&D, marketing and other business activities to compete in the market place making you stronger and more profitable!
Oh sure, we all rushing to go make edits at Britannica with all their linking and copywrite restrictions: http://corporate.britannica.com/termsofuse.html compared to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights Why work to make them richer? If they go CC or GNU Free Documentation License, it will be impressive and of course, have a better chance of succeeding...but dont see any evidence this is a route they going.
Sorry, but I find this thread extremely distasteful! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing is a horrible thing and to wish it on anyone!!! And imply that it is OK to do it to poor disfranchised Zimbabweans or Mozambicans is just sickening to me.
Supporting OOXML is a fruitless endevor and plays right into MS hands at the moment. Any form of implmentation/adoption gives MS a card to play at ISO. OOXML was not formated for interoperablity or to be 100% implmented by anyone other than MS. Of cource as Microsoft makes random changes to OOXML as they are positioned to do and it is in their interest, and then MS launches beta Office 2009 with new features, it will just make interoperating more imposible and all the convertor/filters the FOSS community has developed worthless. One will never ever be able to catch up making a decent convertor/filter interoperate with ODF and OOXML. Microsoft can release a new version of Office quicker than it takes to make a high quality convertor. So why should FOSS keep using its resources to help protect a monopoly. The object is to force MS or create a need for them to help develop ODF since they are a members of OASIS and having ODF as a Native Format in Office.
As you can see for your self, GNOME is participating directly in the Standards process: http://www.ecma-international.org/memento/TC45-M.htm
They might cost 30 to 50 cents a piece but the problem right now is 15 to 30% of the labels dont work for varies reasons http://www.worldlabel.com/rfid/rfid.htm Then you always have a problem of Hacking!! RFID labels being damaged, information being stolen. How they going to solve that?