And your hage doesn’t validate.

I always ensure validity of every single post (with the exception of YouTube embedments, which are tricky with XHTML). In this case, WordPress handling of titles with the quote symbol leads to errors that would be tough to fix, unless we avoid certain symbols. Thanks for letting me know this. I noticed this behaviour a couple of months ago. I already spend hours per month just ensuring the errors go away.

BoycottNovell turned its attention away from a plot that involves Novell serving Microsoft’s agenda into a series of deals and embrace-to-destroy strategies whose aim is to ultimately bury Free software as we know it. It also buries international standards and replaces them with a stack of ‘standards’ which Microsoft controls. It’s the stack of tomorrow’s lock-ins, which were already secretly entrenched and embedded in Windows Vista. Large companies said that Windows Vista should be made illegal in Europe for that reson.

Novell opened the door very wide for Trojan horses. The floodgates of invasion maybe. Picture yourself Novell and Microsoft standing there should to shoulder in OSBC and talking about how they are friends. Meanwhile, Novell supports Microsoft, Microsoft takes a jab at Linux, “Open Source” folks see how ‘charming’ Microsoft is and allow it to raise tensions and polarise further. Novell is the seed of plenty of this.

Is Microsoft learning from Web standards mistakes?

,—-[ Quote ]
| In a video interview with ZDNet Australia last month, Microsoft blogger and
| group manager of technical community, Frank Arrigo, explained how important
| it is for the Redmond giant to follow Web standards.
|
| “Standards are important,” said Arrigo, who admitted that Microsoft had been
| guilty of ignoring them in the past. “If you look at IE6, we didn’t quite
| follow all the standards but standards are important … IE7 as an example is
| trying to address that.”
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There’s this one too [PDF].

,—-[ Quote ]
| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy — allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
`—-

I have heaps of references on this issue as well. IE and ‘standards’ are a separate crime that is worth a whole Web site.

The best analogy against adopting MS-OOXML I tell others is, “Imagine if you were forced to use IE6 to browse the web? Every site, every hole, every critical vulnerability exposed to your system, and others were forced to write to Microsoft’s “standard” SNAFU coding reduced to IE6.” The cost of undoing such a mistake in the future will be exponentially expensive. “Microchusetts” won’t be able to unshit the bed, so to speak.

See: http://www.thegsblog.com/?p=187

It is beyond travesty.

Pamela was wise enough to register groklaw.com and groklaw.net, which can be generalised to include merely anything now that SCO is irrelevant.

Sam Hiser shrewdly told me that the deal with Novell is — in his own eyes — primarily about defeating OOXML. Then came Moonlight (Silverlight) and other stuff from Novell. Surely, this site loses its focus if we look at Novell in isolation. Need we change this? It is hard to ignore how things get pulled towards the GPL, the OSI, and patent FUD.

A suitable domain name might now be microsoft-grand-plan-2006.com even though this whole thing was initially planned years ago, based on what I can gather (patents filed, Port25 founded and so forth). It has evolved over time, for sure.

With all the focus on Novells agreement with Microsoft, I hope we’re also going to seem some equal balance in other similar activities such as Suns efforts with OOXML support, see http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2163405,00.asp

“Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications”

This tag line has changed over time to better align with a scenario that evolved ever since Microsoft had invaded Linux through Novell. The ‘second wave’ was the May 14^th attack.

Anonymous Wed, 2007-08-01 15:14

What a bunch of Crap.
MisterMeister Wed, 2007-08-01 16:26

When the author quotes Laura DiDio(t) as a reliable source I can faintly hear Ricardo Montalban in the background saying “Welcome to Fantasy Island”.

DiDio(t) has no credibility whatsoever as an “analyst”. The debacle with SCO stripped any remaining fragments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_DiDio#SCO_affair

She needs to go back to the paranormal voodoo occult pagan witchcraft reporting she did in a previous life:
Anonymous Wed, 2007-08-01 18:17

The article is pretty poor cause based on too many irrelevant facts and ideas.

Hope no-one take the author as a good source of information, because if so fellows you are betting on the wrong horse for sure.

CIO loosing credibility with such articles.