Dotan Cohen wrote:
> If you want to be the market leader, you have to work for it. ...
Interesting cognitive dissonance. Following MS won't make anyone a
leader except MS, but that seems to be the point of such arguments.
Smoke and mirrors to hide some trouble else where?
Even at face value, it is implying the myth that MS somehow worked for
it, rather than broke competition law at every turn to destroy
competition and prevent entry to the (any) market:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090421111327711
It would be stupid to cease ODF development and turn the entire OASIS
team 180-degrees around and start following MS. We've had 10+ years of
that already and for national economies to get going and out of the
recession (or in some regions, depression) the playing field has to be
leveled.
Open standards level the playing field and following the specs is the
only way to achieve that. In other words, if MS wants to stay relevant,
the managers there have to learn to play ball. However, only someone
with an acute case of money poisoning would want to fiddle with MS
products, they're not even for amatuers. The experiment is over. MS
will exist in the public mindshare for exactly as long as
Waggoner-Edstrom and the others are paid in advance.
Anyway, what key event or decision is all this deIcaza-like, "let's turn
and follow MS" trolling really intended to distract from?
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