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Once More…: Irony, OpenOffice, Open Source, Shared Source, and Microsoft Office (and Standards!)

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“Slashdot recently carried the [resurrected] story about the
head of Microsoft in the Ukraine being forced to use OpenOffice on
Linux to display their Microsoft PowerPoint presentation about
Shared Source. Sort of takes your breath away, doesn’t it. As was
pointed out here this is actually an old story (October 2004),
however it brings a number of interesting things to mind.

“There’s lots of debate and opinion on whether or not a Linux
desktop is ready for prime time deployment…”

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