Rebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called 'OpenDocument Format Civil War' | Linux Today

Rebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called ‘OpenDocument Format Civil War’

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RS
Roy Schestowitz
Oct 10, 2007

“Rob Weir of IBM has just posted a lengthy reply to concerns
raised by Marbux and Gary Edwards (OpenDocument Foundation). There
is so much to be said to not only complement but also correct Rob’s
assessment, but here we shall only refer to the parts which are
associated with Novell and the other relationships Microsoft has
formed in order to combat ODF adoption and make ODF a second-class
citizen…”

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Roy Schestowitz

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