"For years, the poster child of the anti-open source movement was Microsoft, with its proprietary software model. In recent years, however, the company has changed its views, starting an open source software lab to work on interoperability issues. It's even become a purveyor of its own open source-approved licenses. What do these efforts mean? For Sam Ramji, Microsoft's director of open source technology strategy, they indicate the company is 'open' for business."
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Member since:2006-12-28
Uh huh. Towing the party line does not give off an air of intelligence, ignoring years of dirty tricks does not lend you an air of independent thought and quoting spoon fed drivel does not an intelligent comment make.
Sorry Tomcat, but you are gonna have to do better to be able to pull of a statement like that.
Edited 2008-01-26 13:27 UTC
Member since:2006-01-06
Uh huh. Towing the party line does not give off an air of intelligence, ignoring years of dirty tricks does not lend you an air of independent thought and quoting spoon fed drivel does not an intelligent comment make. Sorry Tomcat, but you are gonna have to do better to be able to pull of a statement like that.
Perhaps you should read for comprehension before you criticize me. Here's what I said:
"Sometimes, yes. In the case of OOXML, for example, some people believe that OOXML simply provides a better overall solution than ODF (and its successor). See " rel="nofollow">http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1107"
You complain about me and yet, clearly, you never even read my post. Or, if you did, you must not have understood it, or you'd realize I wasn't expressing my opinion or "towing the party line". Rather, I linked to somebody else's opinion. I realize that I'll never win any popularity contests around here by daring to contradict the orthodoxy that you and people like you have been spoonfed. It's fashionable to hate MS. But I'm a pragmatist. I use many of Microsoft's products, as well as quite a few produced by its competitors. So, I can see the value that both sides provide; whereas, for many of you, it's OSS or nothing. Which is just another brand of tyranny, if you were honest with yourselves.
Edited 2008-01-27 07:51 UTC
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2006-01-06
Yeah, fully-functioning brain cells.