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Microsoft is Said to Have Had an Anti-OpenOffice.org Seminar on Monday (Updated)

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Summary: The Microsoft camp is attacking Oracle's OpenOffice.org (OOOo) while pretending that Oracle is an "evil empire" (whereas Microsoft "loves" open source)

THANKS to Comes vs Microsoft exhibits, last year we posted Microsoft's blatantly anti-GNU/Linux (and highly confidential) presentation. it also covered and encouraged bribery (against GNU/Linux).



At the end of last year we also showed that Microsoft had begun hiring people to fight against OpenOffice.org adoption [1, 2, 3]. That's how a monopolist works, by targeting any sign of competition and then derailing it or bribing those involved (see the Munich story for example).

As many people may know, OpenOffice.org is having an event in Budapest this week, but Microsoft too is said to be in town (same tricks used to steal ODF's thunder). One commenter (not verified) wrote the following comment about Microsoft some days ago:

Nicer? Not really! Here is an excerpt from an invitation for a seminar by Microsoft in Budapest/Hungary on 8.30.2010.

"Program: 9:30 – 10:30 The art of selling against free, opensource Office competitors by Moritz Berger / Enterprise Tech Strategist (in English) 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 – 12:00 Technical teardown of OpenOffice by Moritz Berger / Enterprise Tech Strategist"


Be aware that Microsoft proponents still use Oracle's lawsuit and contrast that with some cocky remarks from Microsoft's Paoli (the "love" nonsense [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) to make Microsoft seem like a friend of "Open Source" while the steward of OpenOffice.org is the "new evil empire" (or something along those lines).

Update: Regarding the OpenOffice.org conference in the same city, Rob Weir told me that "Microsoft (@moritzbe) [Moritz Berger] has a presentation scheduled for tomorrow "Building Bridges"."

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