Quote of the Day: Interoperability Means “First Benefit Microsoft”
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-01 02:16:48 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-01 02:17:46 UTC
Standards Mean “First Benefit Consumers"
This one comes from
Joe Wilcox.
Interoperability: First Benefit Microsoft
[...]
The way I see it, interoperability is for Microsoft a means to an end, the end being competitive gains more than customer benefits. Microsoft is the first beneficiary of its interoperability efforts. The new management tools clearly show what interoperability really means to Microsoft: increasing its footprint in heterogenous platform environments. That's going to be most important in established markets like the United States, where most companies that need servers have them already.
The news that he refers to we have commented on in [
1,
2]. Keep this quote in mind when Microsoft calls OOXML "interoperable".
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Comments
blabla
2008-05-01 03:24:27
Their story will be: "I didn't know" or "I didn't agree, but I couldn't do anything. I had no power."
Ha! Pass the cup, please! Vichy, mon ami, Vichy!
blabla
2008-05-01 03:30:02
http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/04/30/bringing-microsoft-to-the-table-can-ms-become-an-open-source-contributor/
Is this the "community manager" of a linux distribution or the PR man of the Microsoft Corporation?
Again, Vichy!
Never mind, Jeff "I don't know what I'm doing and I really don't care" Waugh.
Trojan horses.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-01 04:06:06
Nikolas Koswinkle
2008-05-01 13:59:38
"Community manager" is a title Zonker chose for himself instead of the traditional title of 'Linux evangelist' because he found it to pompous. He liaisons between the openSUSE community and Novell.
I really wonder whether this website is nothing but a stage for trolls.
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Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-01 14:03:32
Nikolas Koswinkle
2008-05-01 15:45:44
Would this happen if I agreed with you? No, of course net!
But you don't like to listen to what I have to say, so it seems very blatantly obvious that you are trying to discredit me in some way!
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Nikolas Koswinkle
2008-05-01 15:47:39
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Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-01 15:49:29
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-01 15:52:12
mr x
2008-06-16 05:44:33