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The Age: Interoperability Statement ‘Orwellian’

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Sam Varghese
Feb 11, 2005

“An open source advocate in Melbourne has accused Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates’ of making ‘Orwellian pronouncements’ on
interoperability.

“Con Zymaris, chief executive officer of Cybersource, said a
statement that for anyone to claim that ‘proprietary, locked-in
Windows is more interoperable than open, standards-oriented Linux’
ranked with statements like ‘Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is
Strength’ found in the Orwell classic 1984…”


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