Open standards advocate comes out in favor of Microsoft

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 14, 2007 3:08 AM EDT
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Microsoft's standards format has been misunderstood and being "pro Open XML" doesn't make one "anti ODF", claims Australian activist Rick Jelliffe.

[Seems to me like arguing for 2 standards leaves us right where we started - having to convert the freaking documents, when we could have one standard that everyone uses!!! That's not anti-Microsoft; it's pro-users - dcparris]

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Rick Jelliffe - Isn't that they guy who took MS Money? schestowitz 6 1,755 Jun 18, 2007 5:03 PM
Follow the money rcweir 7 1,488 Jun 18, 2007 6:12 AM
Questionable argument bigg 2 1,327 Jun 14, 2007 9:18 AM
Conversion not the issue... dinotrac 6 1,297 Jun 14, 2007 8:43 AM

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