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From: "Fred A. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [users] EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push
James Knott wrote:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22872163.htm
Thanks, James! Excellent!
Fred
At least some agency is looking into M$'s actions in the voting of ISO
standards.
If M$ get there way, everyone will be bowing to their computer god and be
happy to pay for stuff that is currently free.
Next they will try to try to make it a crime to "own" a Linux computer,
or a crime to use anything that was not developed by their team.
Of course if they get to be the owner of Yahoo, then they will try to take
Google to court for something that would make M$ the only "proper"
web search system.
It most likely not come to the last three paragraphs, but M$ is doing
everything they can do to make their stuff the only option. Here in the
USA, M$ is getting away with lots of stuff that the EU is taking them to
task for. One hopes that the USA will one day stop doing lip service
to M$. Even the court rulings against M$ are getting lessen or reversed.
The government cannot live without their yearly licences and discounts
so they do not want M$ to get pissed off and not give what it needs, when
it needs it. EU seems not to have that trouble.
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