On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 07:19 +1000, André Wyrwa wrote:

> While I can see that commercial mentality would stop other commercial
> vendors from implementing their own solution, i don't see the point
> about independent os-projects. How many times has something with the
> same functionality been produced by distinct OSS projects side by side?
> I don't see why MS' move should prevent any other project from working
> on that - besides the fact, of course, that everyone might wait and see
> what happens there.

Then fork it ;-)

> But then I also wonder what happened to that rumored plugin the ODF
> Foundation was having in development for Massachusetts? Any news on that
> one? I would doubt that they'd drop their effort suddenly because of MS'
> announcement.

If it ever existed ;-)

I really don't know, but it would have been an excellent bluff in the
circumstances.

Ian
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