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:Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting
Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting
Aug 23, 2007, 14 :00 UTC (48 Talkback[s]) (6242 reads)

"Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote 'yes' on ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
...phone calls to: 1. Samuel Bodman, Sec ...   Then someone else should place...   
cjm
Aug 23, 2007, 14:29:14  
Did anyone manage to read the story ? I ...   Frickin' floater   
Laxator2
Aug 23, 2007, 14:31:20  
Isn't it great to see the Free Marke ...   Free Market   
Dale Pontius
Aug 23, 2007, 14:38:28  
ANSI will vote "yes" or "yes with commen ...   Yes because it's right   
omniprovident
Aug 23, 2007, 14:38:36  
What free market. Isn't that precis ...   Free market?   
Ted Swart
Aug 23, 2007, 15:01:45  
Cannot believe what omnipresent just sai ...   Not really, omnipresent   
Pari
Aug 23, 2007, 15:18:46  
> ANSI will vote "yes" or "yes with comm ...   Re: Yes because it's right   
Cado
Aug 23, 2007, 15:27:38  
If you beleive he made those calls to pe ...   Re: Free market?   
omniprovident
Aug 23, 2007, 15:29:27  
ANSI will vote "yes" or "yes with comme ...   Re: Yes because it's right   
Toby Haynes
Aug 23, 2007, 15:39:26  
MSFT is way behind on the Rove's "re ...   Re: Yes because it's right   
/dev/cpu
Aug 23, 2007, 15:47:20  
> If you beleive he made those calls to ...   Re: Re: Free market?   
/dev/cpu
Aug 23, 2007, 16:12:21  
Toby of the big blue skies - why are you ...   Re: Re: Yes because it's right   
omniprovident
Aug 23, 2007, 16:30:36  
> ISO's credibility is certainly on ...   Re: Re: Yes because it's right   
Robert Devi
Aug 23, 2007, 16:31:34  
I apologize if you're offended. Tha ...   Re: Re: Re: Free market?   
omniprovident
Aug 23, 2007, 16:38:12  
It's quite short - at least if my se ...   Re: Frickin' floater   
Ron
Aug 23, 2007, 17:01:50  
> What free market[?]. Isn't that p ...   Re: Free market?   
Bob_Robertson
Aug 23, 2007, 17:32:34  
> The process will result in more choice ...   Re: Yes because it's right   
Jeff Cobb
Aug 23, 2007, 17:38:27  
For the moment, let's ignore any tal ...   NOT right, simply because   
Dale Pontius
Aug 23, 2007, 17:39:47  
How is it again Omniimpotent, that havin ...   Re: Yes because it's right   
BD
Aug 23, 2007, 18:08:02  
Omniprovident has yet to explain why two ...   Omniprovident idiocy   
David F. Skoll
Aug 23, 2007, 18:48:55  
Oh now hold on there cowboy! There was ...   Re: Yes, because its right   
Joe User
Aug 23, 2007, 18:51:16  
Omni, if going by your view ODF/OOXML pr ...   Promote choice BS   
pari
Aug 23, 2007, 19:27:30  
The ISO/ECMA processes are designed to c ...   Re: NOT right, simply because   
omniprovident
Aug 23, 2007, 19:39:12  
By imcompatible you mean competing/diffe ...   Re: BD   
omniprovident
Aug 23, 2007, 19:50:12  
Toby of the big blue skies - why are yo ...   Re: Re: Re: Yes because it's right   
Toby Haynes
Aug 23, 2007, 19:53:20  
Joe, when you say there's no choice, ...   Re: Joe User   
omniprovident
Aug 23, 2007, 20:12:48  
I have not got a problem with OOXML beco ...   OOXML Still a Problem   
YetAnotherBob
Aug 23, 2007, 20:19:29  
Thanks! I could not read it before. ...   Re: Re: Frickin' floater   
Laxator2
Aug 23, 2007, 20:23:06  
Several weeks I heard a story about how ...   Outrage?   
DDahl
Aug 23, 2007, 20:25:06  
WTF are you talking about? ODF was creat ...   Re: Yes because it's right - wake up   
barney
Aug 23, 2007, 20:27:17  
Choice among TRUE OPEN standard would ma ...   Re: Yes because it's right   
markit
Aug 23, 2007, 20:39:30  
"ISO is replete with competitng/diff ...   Re: Yes because it's right   
Bernard Swiss
Aug 23, 2007, 23:37:24  
Omnipro, you knew you were stiking your ...   Omniprovident: brave but confused   
Jose
Aug 24, 2007, 00:59:06  
Toby, here's my math. You should pr ...   Irrational Math? Not   
omniprovient
Aug 24, 2007, 01:15:18  
> ANSI will vote "yes" or "yes with comm ...   Re: Yes because it's right   
Rainer Weikusat
Aug 24, 2007, 09:11:53  
... because he top-quotes. Yet Another ...   Omniimpotent obviously uses Windoze...   
David F. Skoll
Aug 24, 2007, 12:27:51  
> Toby, here's my math. .You fail t ...   Re: Irrational Math? Not   
Rainer Weikusat
Aug 24, 2007, 14:06:19  
Top quotes, wow. I'm hurt. Of cou ...   Re: Omniimpotent obviously uses Windoze...   
omniprovident
Aug 24, 2007, 14:23:53  
> Top quotes, wow. I'm hurt.Well, y ...   Re: Re: Omniimpotent obviously uses Windoze...   
David F. Skoll
Aug 24, 2007, 15:05:40  
Professional Comment Poster. It's in ...   Omni is a PCP   
Frank
Aug 24, 2007, 15:45:23  
> Did anyone manage to read the story ? ...   Re: Frickin' floater   
blackhole
Aug 24, 2007, 16:21:06  
> The process will result in more choice ...   Re: Yes because it's right   
blackhole
Aug 24, 2007, 16:28:22  
> The ISO/ECMA processes are designed to ...   Re: Re: NOT right, simply because   
blackhole
Aug 24, 2007, 16:36:46  
> It frees the data being generated rega ...   Re: Re: BD   
blackhole
Aug 24, 2007, 16:40:01  
> Several weeks I heard a story about ho ...   Re: Outrage?   
blackhole
Aug 24, 2007, 16:42:49  
>I read the piece. That's not funny. ...   Re: Re: Outrage?   
DDahl
Aug 24, 2007, 19:00:44  
> I didn't mean "funny-ha,ha", I mea ...   Re: Re: Re: Outrage?   
blackhole
Aug 24, 2007, 19:46:43  
>> were Americans fighting for democracy ...   Re: Omniprovident: brave but confused   
Jose
Aug 25, 2007, 01:00:36  
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