Comments on: How Bill Gates Denied Access to Office File Format Documentation to Stifle Competition http://techrights.org/2009/08/17/bill-gates-vs-open-file-formats/ 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/2009/08/17/bill-gates-vs-open-file-formats/comment-page-1/#comment-72340 Roy Schestowitz Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:18:53 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=16807#comment-72340 Nowhere does it say what happens if a solid competitor requests those documents. Nowhere does it say what happens if a solid competitor requests those documents.

]]> By: Jose_X http://techrights.org/2009/08/17/bill-gates-vs-open-file-formats/comment-page-1/#comment-72339 Jose_X Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:12:03 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=16807#comment-72339 The "docs' are garbage whether people sign or not. Another Comes quote from the late 1990s I think was about how wine would be much more evolved if wine devs had access to source code and info not discernable from the docs (eg, "bugs"/misimplementations/extensions/etc in MS products). Samba had clearly been dealing with headaches and lack of docs by this time. These papers being signed might involve patent acknowledgments [?] The “docs’ are garbage whether people sign or not.

Another Comes quote from the late 1990s I think was about how wine would be much more evolved if wine devs had access to source code and info not discernable from the docs (eg, “bugs”/misimplementations/extensions/etc in MS products).

Samba had clearly been dealing with headaches and lack of docs by this time.

These papers being signed might involve patent acknowledgments [?]

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