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What’s Wrong With Choice?

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 3 comments
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Brian Jones of Microsoft feels that the storm of publicity about shortcomings in OOXML is largely due to IBM investing its money and time in developing the expertise to consult for ODF-using products.He says that he really stands for choice. In fact, he wants the end-user and the developer to be able to choose freely whether to support ODF or OOXML or perhaps even both. Mr. Jones, if you really care about choice, implement ODF as a fully-native peer to OOXML and automatically download it in the next batch of updates, rather than using a partially-functional plug-in that has to be searched out and then downloaded. Or is it really Microsoft that is afraid?

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Comments (3)

tracyanne ·
or why one is forced to choose.
gus3 ·
I'm not sure if this is a Huey Long ("I don't care how they vote, as long as I do the nominatin'") or Vladimir Lenin ("It does not matter how the people vote, what matters is who counts the votes").
Bob_Robertson ·
Gus, that's why I hate democracy. This "winner take all" poop has _got_ to be excised from the mind as a "legitimate" form of decision making.

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