Shenanigan in the Deals
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| Abe Jun 21, 2007 4:02 PM EDT |
Well, well, well. What do you know! How many companies has MS contracted with to develop ODF-OOXML translator? A company in France, another in WA, then Novell, now Xandros. It seems MS is employing quite a few outfits just to develop this translator. I guess it is just conducting normal business. |
| azerthoth Jun 21, 2007 4:19 PM EDT |
Did I read that right? That it will be open source and then only available through Xandros? Can someone tell me how that works? |
| dinotrac Jun 21, 2007 4:27 PM EDT |
>Can someone tell me how that works? Badly is my guess. |
| azerthoth Jun 21, 2007 5:45 PM EDT |
oof I did kind of set myself up for that one. Gotta love dino, runs screaming from the room when the bad puns start but he cant pass up a straight line to save his life. |
| NoDough Jun 21, 2007 6:54 PM EDT |
Quoting:That it will be open source and then only available through Xandros? Open Source < FOSS. I can make the source of something I write available, but under a non-free license. |
| dinotrac Jun 21, 2007 7:30 PM EDT |
>runs screaming from the room when the bad puns start You got that wrong -- I pun from the bathroom when the runs start streaming. |
| kozmcrae Jun 21, 2007 8:02 PM EDT |
"It seems MS is employing quite a few outfits just to develop this translator." That's four different translators. They'll all work a little differently. Then Microsoft will shout out to the world how much "work" they've accomplished and how much they've "contributed" to Open Source. In fact they will have helped to fracture the Open Source method. We may not know what their plans are but there is no doubt that their dream is to kill or neutralize Open Source. |
| Shagbag Jun 22, 2007 1:20 AM EDT |
This is bad news. Allowing Open XML to become a standard is yet another way that M$ can cement its monopoly position - it will control the standard so any open source translator will always be playing catch-up. It really is disheartening that M$, yet again, appears to wiggling out of having any sort of external control over it. |
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