Golden's Rules: The real story behind the Massachusetts ODF flap

Posted by dcparris on Nov 10, 2005 11:47 PM EDT
SearchOpenSource.com; By Bernard Golden
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Bernard Golden writes: "With respect to the first two arguments, Microsoft is going to have some very angry ex-allies when they become aware that there is a significant difference between application and output, and that mandating an output format has nothing to do with the application creating the output. Nothing irritates a political player more than finding out that he or she has been taken advantage of for someone else's agenda. In any case, these two arguments are just cover for the real issue Microsoft has, which revolves around the third issue: control of file formats."

[The question is, will these guys realize they've been had? - Ed]

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The question is, will these guys realize they've been had? mdl 2 1,356 Nov 11, 2005 7:34 AM

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