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Re: [News] (Part of) GNOME Foundation Still Accused of Helping Microsoft Monopoly

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Monday 03 December 2007 08:13 : \____
> 
>> Mark Kent wrote:
>> 
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> With Friends Like These - GNOME, OOXML, and ODF: A Q&A
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| On the first of this month, after reading about the original dispute
>>>>| between ODF advocates and representatives from the GNOME community,
>>>> `----
>>>> 
>>>> http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/11/29/gnome_odf/
>>>> 
>>>> Eyes on Novell employees (or former employees) like de Icaza and Jody
>>>> Goldberg. Some say that they Microsoft shills.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Novell is looking more and more like another SCO.
>>> 
>> 
>> You are looking more and more like a brainless twat
> 
> SCO were very, very different. Nonetheless, Novell is clearly making some moves
> that help Microsoft and it's even dividing the GNOME Foundation on some
> issues. I'll do an audio session with linux.com/Slashdot this Wednesday and
> discuss this.

Novell most certainly is, I know.

> 
> Bear in mind that Jody Goldberg left Novell just a few months ago. de Icaza was
> the president of the GNOME Foundation until a few weeks ago. Microsoft seems
> to be using the Novell component of the Foundation to get an ISO and hurt ODF.
> Don't ask me. Ask others who have similar feelings.
> 

Divide and conquer is always a viable approach.  There are always disloyal
folk who would p*ss on their mates' bonfire if offered enough.

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