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Standards, Open Standards and Double Standards
Oct 3, 2008, 15 :32 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (3963 reads)

(Other stories by Jeff Gould)

[ Thanks to AlexGr for this link. ]

"The proponents of OpenOffice have conspicuously failed to make this unimaginative clone of Office a success in the marketplace. So they took it to the ISO and got its format declared a standard, a fact which they expected to use to browbeat certain – um, shall we say, “easily influenced” – customers into picking OpenOffice."

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This is about as blatant a propaganda pi ...   Inaccurate and blatent propaganda.   
Shiva
Oct 3, 2008, 16:12:47
 
... and not 'successful companies&#3 ...   It's "the successful company" ...   
Rainer Weikusat
Oct 3, 2008, 16:21:41
 
This author needs some serious adjustmen ...   Quite amusing   
u
Oct 3, 2008, 17:31:17
 
In the twisted alternative reality that  ...   My reality   
philc
Oct 3, 2008, 21:36:33
 
a site calling itself interopnews with a ...   another useless site   
Volker Hett
Oct 4, 2008, 00:41:03
 
>> The only possible explanation for thi ...   Re: Inaccurate and blatent propaganda.   
Jose_X
Oct 4, 2008, 03:04:46
 
It is very obvious that you are a fan of ...   Another MS Fan   
Roni Oliva
Oct 4, 2008, 15:42:41
 
"If you don't know something, you te ...   Re: another useless site   
jp
Oct 4, 2008, 17:09:35
 
Today's politicans think nothing of  ...   Classic double speak...   
GreyGeek
Oct 4, 2008, 18:01:47
 
> "If you don't know something, you  ...   Re: Re: another useless site   
Rainer Weikusat
Oct 5, 2008, 11:47:11
 
 >  > > Think about that for a second. I ...   Re: Re: Re: another useless site   
jp
Oct 5, 2008, 20:16:37
 
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