[Cialug] Microsoft Paranoid

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

My response to MS regarding this accusation is: Yeah.. so what?

All business do things that "advance" their business model. This is
kinda like the pot calling the kettle black...



On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 10:09 -0600, Todd Walton wrote:
> Microsoft Believes IBM Masterminded Anti-OOXML Initiative
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/30/1930206
> 
> mahuyar writes "Microsoft executives have accused IBM of leading the
> campaign against their initiative to have Office Open XML approved by
> the International Organization for Standardization. 'Nicos Tsilas,
> senior director of interoperability and IP policy at Microsoft, said
> that IBM and the likes of the Free Software Foundation have been
> lobbying governments to mandate the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF)
> standard to the exclusion of any other format. "They have made this a
> religious and highly political debate," Tsilas said. "They are doing
> this because it is advancing their business model. Over 50 percent of
> IBM's revenues come from consulting services."'"
> 
> =====================================
> 
> With a little thought, a person could easily recast computer industry
> politics in the mold of Middle East politics.  Microsoft is Iran,
> getting paranoid about suspected encroachments on its sovereignty.
> Who knows what Microsoft is building behind those closed walls?
> 
> And why are they so bent on taking over all the little countries
> surrounding them, like with their "Response Point"?  Why does
> Microsoft have to be in *everything*?
> 
> -todd
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