[NTLUG:Discuss] MicroSoft Goes Open?

[Thomas Cameron (Red Hat)]

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Kenneth Loafman wrote:
| Thomas Cameron (Red Hat) wrote:
|> Stan Gatchel wrote:
|> | What's your take on this? Big splash in the news yesterday.
|> |
|> | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/microsoft_goes_open/
|>
|> It's crap.  Odd how this announcement (one of MANY such announcements
|> which have never been followed through) comes just a week before the
|> OOXML vote, eh?
|>
|> This is a shameless attempt to sway that vote.  The world is just
|> Charlie Brown to Microsoft's Lucy.  The football is openness.
|>
|> Don't believe it for a moment.
|
| The ones that will believe it are our congresscritters.  That's scary!

They're *your* congresscritters.  Enlighten them.  Part of
representative democracy is supposed to be the reps listening to their
constituents.
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