iTWire: Novell: Where Have the PR Folk Gone?

[ Thanks to Sam Varghese for this link. ]

"It is difficult to find a better case of bad timing than Novell's announcement this week that it would be implementing support for Microsoft's OpenXML format in its (Novell's) version of OpenOffice.org.

"Novell has already been hammered left, right and centre after it signed a deal with Microsoft in November. If anything, one would expect that it would studiously avoid doing anything even remotely seen to be aiding Microsoft..."

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