Microsoft has hit back at critics, including IBM, which voted against approving the company's Office OpenXML format as an Ecma standard, claiming it is nothing more than a vendor-dictated specification that documents proprietary products via XML. Ecma International announced the approval of the new standard Dec. 6 following a meeting of its general assembly and said it will begin the fast track process for adoption of the Office OpenXML formats as an ISO international standard in January 2007.
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Member since:2005-07-07
Everything I've seen and read indicate that all the pathological lying is done by the FOSS side.
Again big words from you. Again missed words from you.
It started with the 4 freedoms that turn out to be 3 freedoms and an obligation.
As I already stated, don't talk about things you don't know about.
Freedom "as by GPL" is not stated from users perspective. It is stated from the perspective of software piece. People who understand that love it for the same reason.
In translation, "Something set to be free MUST and WILL stay free". And for software to achieve that freedom, users are posed with obligation to protect it and behave accordingly. The "MUST stay FREE" part is also the so called "viral" part of the license. This part is also the reason some companies don't like GPL. And from the other side, this exact same part is the reason why me and most FOSS people love GPL so much.
p.s. Money is not involved here. Free doesn't mean free of charge. You can sell it. It is even encouraged.
If you lie about what you fundamentally believe, everything else is just a lie built up a foundationof lies.
And if you talk about something you fundamentally don't understand or comprehend result is the same. Ok, it is even worse.
Member since:2006-06-01
Member since:
2006-06-01
I guess we can expect only increased pathological lying to sugarcoat Microsoft.
Everything I've seen and read indicate that all the pathological lying is done by the FOSS side.
It started with the 4 freedoms that turn out to be 3 freedoms and an obligation.
If you lie about what you fundamentally believe, everything else is just a lie built up a foundationof lies.