** Reply to message from Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:01:37 +0700
> Hello all, > Sorry for the OT. > Although I have been 'freed' from M$ oppression for several years now, my > formal stance on it is quite 'neutral'. Like the saying in IT, "It's all just > a tool for IT man, doesn't really matter whether it is FLOSS or M$'. > > But, now I've just found out how DIRTY M$ is in doing their business. > For the last couple of days, they have been lobbying our National > Standardization Board to make M$ OXML as the national standard. > > So far the voting reach a deadlock, meaning that M$ OXML is still rejected as > the national standard. However, seeing how DIRTY M$ is, the next voting is > still makes us worried. > > Has this kind of DIRTY POLITICS happens in other countries regarding ODF > (Open > Document Format) vs M$ OXML? How do we deal with it? http://www.noooxml.org/ > > As a positive point of view, I think it is an early sign that they have lost > confidence in competing technically, and thus they're using this kind > of "DIRTY" lobbying. > > Cheers, > -- > Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial > http://linux2.arinet.org > 11:58:14 up 4:23, 2.6.20-16-generic GNU/Linux > Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org "Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly" -- and Bill Gates..... Nothing is new here, by the way. Microsoft has always conducted its business on the same "high ethical level".It just didn't attract your attention. Remember that they achieved their virtually complete monopoly by threatening to cut off any vendor that also did business with any competitive operating system. You don't get to populate your offices with multimillionaires by shooting straight. There is nothing immoral about lobbying, however. When it starts to smell of corruption is when they pack the voting panel with bribed shills and cronies. I don't think they ever had "confidence in competing technically". How could they, given the crappy quality that has always characterized their software? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel 1975 Home-brew with ASM-80 1978 CP/M 1981 MS-DOS 1987 Quarterdeck 1992 OS/2 - eComStation 2007 LINUX openSuSE Thirty-two years (and counting) of happy, Windows-free computing --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
