James Knott wrote: > They're not trying for anarchy. They're trying to kill any hope of > competition, as is shown by their track record. Destroy ODF, so that > their own proprietary formats become the only choice.
Also, the "inevitability" of MS is a talking point used since the 1990's to troll forums and lists, like this one. One key document mentioning it is Plaintiff's Exhibit 3096 from Comes v Microsoft, aka the Iowa case: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20071023002351958 What's not being discussed here is the huge advantage the OOo can gain from the transfer to Oracle. Also, the Sparc architecture is more suited to servers than the anti-competitive x86. X86 does the same for Intel as the MS Office formats do for MS. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Sparc, which is an open architecture. The idea of rewarding recidivism is stupid, doing so only encourages the problem makers to behave worse. That's something we've seen with this particular recidivist over the years. The whole market has chosen standard ODF, MS has not. Regards -Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
