Comments on: Poison Pill Poppers http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/18/poison-pill-poppers/ Truth happens Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:50:01 +0000 http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/?v=1.0.2 by: Michael Shigorin http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/18/poison-pill-poppers/#comment-14367 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:19:59 +0000 http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/18/poison-pill-poppers/#comment-14367 The article is surprisingly full of typos: "docutment", presumably triple quoting in “doesn’t “restrict choice in formats.”, OOXL. Guess "Micro$oft" is also a tad childish. If [some of] these weren't intended, feel free to merge the patch and remove it. :) The article is surprisingly full of typos: “docutment”, presumably triple quoting in “doesn’t “restrict choice in formats.”, OOXL.

Guess “Micro$oft” is also a tad childish.

If [some of] these weren’t intended, feel free to merge the patch and remove it. :)

]]> by: Zaine Ridling http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/18/poison-pill-poppers/#comment-14348 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:56:56 +0000 http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/18/poison-pill-poppers/#comment-14348 What's unique is, that despite Microsoft's best lobbying and marketing efforts for MS-OOXML, I'm seeing more and more ordinary people speak out on forums who are just now beginning to understand how much of a bad deal MS-OOXML is for users. Rob Wier makes a good point, taking Microsoft's argument to its logical extreme — if two standards are better than one, why not three, four, ten, twenty? Let's go back and standardize the formats of WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, WordStar, and so on, then everything is a "standard"! Maybe we need someone to come up with a napkin drawing for this entire issue like the copyright example you posted above! What’s unique is, that despite Microsoft’s best lobbying and marketing efforts for MS-OOXML, I’m seeing more and more ordinary people speak out on forums who are just now beginning to understand how much of a bad deal MS-OOXML is for users.

Rob Wier makes a good point, taking Microsoft’s argument to its logical extreme — if two standards are better than one, why not three, four, ten, twenty? Let’s go back and standardize the formats of WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, WordStar, and so on, then everything is a “standard”!

Maybe we need someone to come up with a napkin drawing for this entire issue like the copyright example you posted above!

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