Comments on: What’s Good for Microsoft is Good for Novell? http://techrights.org/2008/01/01/novell-praises-patent-deal/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/01/01/novell-praises-patent-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-4576 Roy Schestowitz Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:07:26 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/01/novell-praises-patent-deal/#comment-4576 You must look back at OOXML in November 2006 and prior to that. It was nowhere. Microsoft uses GNOME and Novell (via de Icaza and ilk) to boast pseudo-support of OOXML. The same goes for Corel and Apple, both of which have deals with Microsoft. You must look back at OOXML in November 2006 and prior to that. It was nowhere. Microsoft uses GNOME and Novell (via de Icaza and ilk) to boast pseudo-support of OOXML. The same goes for Corel and Apple, both of which have deals with Microsoft.

]]> By: hey http://techrights.org/2008/01/01/novell-praises-patent-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-4575 hey Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:00:34 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/01/novell-praises-patent-deal/#comment-4575 <blockquote># Supporting OOXML, i.e. helping Microsoft kill ODF</blockquote> It is not just about ODF, if the defacto standard became an official one we would be destroying any competition against Microsoft on the desktop.

# Supporting OOXML, i.e. helping Microsoft kill ODF

It is not just about ODF, if the defacto standard became an official one we would be destroying any competition against Microsoft on the desktop.

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