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You’re not seeing the whole story.

By the way, use of identical addresses by two visitors is possible yet rare, and when both ‘separate’ users (nyms) from the same address are similarly abusive, have the same attitude and vocabulary (clear recurring patterns) and soon use Web proxies to enter the site, well…

Of all the guys that frequently make posts that are against the line of opinion for this blog, only eet is ‘silenced’ like this, the rest are made with respect and don’t have such history of just being lame and trying to divert attention so they aren’t.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/22/eet-strommael-gmx-net/

He has been harassing (personal attacks) not only the editors but also other readers, who found him obnoxious, rude and disruptive. They politely asked for action to be taken. He is the only person ever to have received this type of treatment, having made some very vile remarks comparing us even to Nazis, if I recall correctly (not quite so explicitly though).

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stevetheFLY: 80.132.128.196

eet: 80.132.139.19

The history of Microsoft, has always been about the bottom line, making money (everything they can get there hands on, while shitting on the competition at the same time). OpenOffice.org is backed by Sun (if I remember correctly), and is a big player in the Open Source movement (which Microsoft sees as competition). So any payments that would go to Microsoft would have to come from Sun. Which Sun isn’t going to publicly state anytime soon.

The good news is that if Sun (or any company that is implementing OOXML) does at any point publicly disclose an amount that is not [url=http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease/faqs_isoiec29500.htm]reasonable or discriminatory[/url]. ISO will withdraw the standard.

MS’ plan.
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* Charging users for Office, that’s easy. 1st instance in which MS gets money because of OOXML.
* Charging ‘competitors’ for the contributions MS does to aid “interoperability”, does this with Novell already , I am foreseeing it will happen with apple.
* Charging developers for trying to implement OOXML: get to accept it, a single dev is not going to implement 6000 pages of poor documentation, so what’s he going to do? He downloads MS’ library for handling OOXML file. Too bad it is .net, so money does go to MS from then.

In the future MS, is just gonna make sure every document you save in OOXML comes with its set of extensions that will require anybody wanting to open it with his app to pay them royalties. You can’t blame MS for that though since they kinda got the permission to do that from both ECMA and ISO.

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stevetheFLY: 80.132.128.196

eet: 80.132.139.19

Of course Microsoft is charging for OOXML implementation, at least it charges Novell. So what other proof do you need?

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My point is: You are deliberately writing sensationalist nonsense. This is NOT what I expect from a self-appointed defener of freedom.

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