The Laws of Open Standards Broken by Interoperability

I wish you would write like that more often. It shows that you actually have a flair for it. boycottnovell may have gotten your name as a writer into the world, but its article like these that show that you can be well spoken and well thought out when you want to be.

Good job.

Yes in deed, Roy brings out a very important point. Open standards should be the only method of interoperability between desperate systems, whether for documents or protocols. The commission's solution does indeed go in Microsoft's favor and should not be acceptable by the FOSS.

The burden now falls on FOSS to come up with better open protocol and document standards and avoid MS all together as much as possible. MS needs to be isolated and the only way that can be done is for FOSS to proliferate as quickly as possible and become more ubiquitous in governments and the enterprise.

Here is a direct link to the agreement

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/0...

To do things *his* way would force companies to basically scrap products that are working and meet a customer need - though not to any open standard. Think about that - the costs for software development would soar and the products that are so sorely needed would become prohibitively expensive due to re-development costs.

Perhaps the author believes that any such non-compliant code should have been written to comply with such open standards. The only problem is that for most software being used, there were no "open standards" to comply with.

Hence the necessity, and absolute need, for "interoperability" plug-ins and modifications.

But considering this is the same "pie-in-the-sky" anti-business idealist that contributes to "boycottnovell," I don't expect that he'll ever "get it."

Software that isn't used is pointless, and continually calling for "boycotts" instead of compromise is just plain idiocy.

I recently saw an IBM commercial and the 'Boss' says, "No, the point of innovation is to make money"

Welcome to the new vocabulary..

Quoting: Perhaps the author believes that any such non-compliant code should have been written to comply with such open standards. The only problem is that for most software being used, there were no "open standards" to comply with.

Then open standards need to be formalised for it.

I'm happy to bash this bloke for his BoycottNovell rubbish, but he actually talks good sense in this article.

The point of any enterprise, be it a non-profit charity or a commercial business, is, and always has been, to bring in revenue so that goods and/or services (aka "the product") may be provided.The boss in that commercial is simply restating an age-old historical truth about life.