There are some interesting events in Jonathan's post:
Bill skipped the small talk, and went straight to the
point, “Microsoft owns the office productivity market,
and our patents read all over OpenOffice.” OpenOffice
is a free office productivity suite found on tens of
millions of desktops worldwide. It’s a tremendous brand
ambassador for its owner – it also limits the appeal of
Microsoft Office to businesses and those forced to
pirate it. Bill was delivering a slightly more
sophisticated variant of the threat Steve had made, but
he had a different solution in mind. “We’re happy to
get you under license.” That was code for “We’ll go
away if you pay us a royalty for every download” – the
digital version of a protection racket.
http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/
There's also some discussion over at Groklaw:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100309201407886
OOo as itself and as a promoter of ODF cuts deeply into one of
Microsoft's two cash cows, the monopoly on office formats.
/Lars
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