Jim Allan wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/5/23 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Microsoft has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity to
foul up interoperability.
I so like that... I intend to quote you on that one with your
permission.
It is not mine:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abba_Eban
Wasn’t it Microsoft who invented ODBC which has been generally adopted
in the Linux and Unix world as well?
How has Microsoft screwed up Unicode? (Yes, I am aware that the
identify the \ characters with the ¥ character on Japanese computers,
but that is the only example I know of where they go against Unicode.)
Seems to me they were the most persistent supporters of Unicode in the
early days when no-one else was supporting it.
one swallow doesn't make a summer
Just a warning not to overdo the Microsoft-bashing.
OOXML, ODF and its relationship to MSFT is not about bashing the
company, it is about being watchful of how open standards get adopted.
I care about "MY data" just like MSFT, SUN, IBM etc. care about their
bottomline.
-G
Jim Allan
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