jonathon wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Robin Laing  wrote:
Well it is official, free software is affecting Microsoft's projections.

Two or three years ago, Microsoft included a note in their SEC filings
that OOo and Linux were threatening their revenue stream.  I've
forgotten the exact wording of that admission.  :(

xan

jonathon

Someone else informed me of this. But I think the key point that I read is the issue of governments pushing for FLOSS and ISO/Open standards. Part of the reason I think MS is pushing OOXML so much.

Hopefully the vote will be negative this week.

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Robin Laing

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