OOXML and Standards Australia - an important correction
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| Groklaw has a rather extensive discussion of a recent meeting at Standards
| Australia about their vote on OOXML. I need to correct something mentioned in
| that report.
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| IBM is not now a member of CompTIA. We used to be a member, but we quit some
| time ago. We did not participate in any CompTIA meeting where we voiced our
| support for OOXML.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1785
CoompTIA is an anti-Linux lobbying arm of Microsoft. One among several in fact,
including ACT and ISC.
Oracle’s technical comments on OOXML / DIS 29500
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1787
Related:
Clearing up anti-GPL3 FUD
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| Some of the bad publicity about GPL3 is deliberate. A particularly
| bad article by Dan Lyons of Forbes magazine painted an offensive
| picture of GPL3 and Richard Stallman, even accusing Stallman of
| having sex with flowers (!!!) after Lyons failed to comprehend
| a scientific joke.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/22/16651/
Perens Lashes Out at Claims GPL 3 Brings Legal Risks
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| "Let's make it clear that [ACT] is Microsoft's lobbying front and
| that they are going to paint as negative a picture as they can,"
| Perens told eWEEK in an interview.
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| "Obviously, GPL software is displacing Microsoft enough to have
| them concerned, and it's doing it at customers who are important
| to them. A lawyer's job is to scare the other side if they can--because
| they know it's cheaper than winning a case in court," he said.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2112267,00.asp
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