What If Microsoft Gave An Interoperability Party and Nobody Came?
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Jason Brooks – Open Source – Microsoft’s Interop Forecast Is Partly Cloudy
“However, the legal environment surrounding interoperability between Microsoft’s products and the open-source applications that have sprung up to rival Redmond’s proprietary wares is scarcely less murky today than it was yesterday.”
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Microsoft Spins Legal Defeat into PR Fool’s Gold
“But if you take a close look at this PR stunt, and that’s all it really is, and then look at Microsoft’s long history of making, and breaking, interoperability promises, well I don’t believe that for a New York minute.”
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Microsoft Watch – Corporate – Whose Principles Are They?
“To be absolutely clear: The announcement about Microsoft’s so-called new interoperability push is a public relations ploy, since the company touts as a customer benefit something required by European trustbusters.”
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Competitive And Anti-Trust Forces Spur Microsoft’s Openness Pledge — Microsoft — InformationWeek
“Despite the rhetoric, Microsoft said it will continue to play verbal hardball with commercial open source competitors that don’t license the company’s intellectual property.”
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Groklaw – Promises, Promises from Microsoft. Again.
“Nobody is buying it. Well. Employees, maybe.”
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Microsoft pledge excluding primary competitors
“If Microsoft truly means to facilitate interoperability and fair access they should spare delegates the BRM, retract MS-OOXML from ISO and converge this work into the global effort for the Open Document Format, the existing Open Standard at ISO for office documents.”
Open Documents and the Standards Process
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Can you live with it? [OOXML] – Arnaud’s Open blog
“… having spent the greater part of my career working on standards, I find the whole OOXML debacle truly appalling and a total disgrace to the standards community …”
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Introducing Document Freedom Day – 26 March: A global day for document liberation
“The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with grassroots action for promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general.”
Style, Websites, and Politics
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Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? – New York Times
“On one thing, the experts seem to agree. The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC.”
