Doing what's right vs Doing what's Microsoft.
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| dinotrac Nov 16, 2005 6:58 AM EDT |
Microsoft, of course, cares nothing about such entreaties, except that... It does... because... People do care about the moral high ground. That's why Microsoft argues about disrupting the operations of the state instead of disrupting its own bottom line. That's why the American civil rights movement gained momentum when decent people all over the country could see, in their own living rooms, the terrible excesses brought to bear against the freedom riders, et al. It's why this approach will wear down Microsoft. It's not fast. It's not easy. You inevitably get roughed up along the way. But it works when you are clearly in the right. The trick is letting people see. I think this whole Massachusetts OpenDocument thing is fabulous. More of it will be better still, even if we lose every battle along the way. Remember -- the goal is winning the war, not the battles. One of the greatest generals of the American Revolution made a strategy of losing battles cheaply over winning them at great expense. He wore out the enemy until he was able, finally, to win for good. |
| SamShazaam Nov 16, 2005 7:44 AM EDT |
At least they have figured out where the problem lies. Stubborn MS management. Microsoft could, with very little effort, solve this problem. Or, with all the money being spent lobbying over this issue, we could hire programmers and finance an open source solution to this problem. Certainly this is not the end of this issue. |
| tuxchick Nov 16, 2005 8:04 AM EDT |
"Microsoft could, with very little effort, solve this problem. Or, with all the money being spent lobbying over this issue, we could hire programmers and finance an open source solution to this problem" What are you, some kind of wild-eyed crazy radical? Get a grip. Of course you are right. But being sensible has never been a microshaft trait. |
| henke54 Nov 16, 2005 9:19 AM EDT |
if u google the words 'microsoft + abusive' (abusive = doing wrong) u get this --> [url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ned=us&q=microsoft + abusive&btnmeta=search=search=Search the Web]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ned=us&q=microsoft + abus...[/url] |
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