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Is Microsoft just stupid, or are their PR people dishonest

Story: Putting Open-source Software to the TestTotal Replies: 3
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ralph

Nov 23, 2005
11:40 AM EST 		I have read the Microsoft license and the Adobe license on their formats. If Microsoft thinks their format is open, as compared to Adobe, they don't know how to read. It is pretty obvious that they don't know how to write, or at least the writer of the Office XML format doesn't. If they want to make a reasonable license, I suspect they can. That makes me think they don't want the Office to be reasonable.
tadelste

Nov 23, 2005
11:43 AM EST 		well. Reasonable in the sense that the came up with a reason? Or reasonable in the sense that it was within a norm?
jimf

Nov 23, 2005
12:19 PM EST 		The Lawers composing those licenses are paid a lot of money to understand what open software is and isn't, and, to make the documents say 'exactly' what MS wants them to say.
tadelste

Nov 23, 2005
12:32 PM EST 		I agree.

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