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    CD Baric

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  1. Comment - ISO takes full charge of Open XML, sets up 'harmonization' group

    (Apr 11, 2008 - 1:41 PM)

    OXML is NOT a standard - it is an incomplete collection of legacy CRAP from a collection of Microsoft business applications.

    The fact that Microsoft managed to stuff the ballot box and have it rammed through ISO fast track acceptance only means money can buy almost anything.

    Unfortunately I think Microsoft has managed to destroy any cred ISO may have had and as such has rendered it irrelevant.

    OXML is irreconcilable with real operational applications and as such will now assume it's real role in the world - a check mark on gov purchase orders requiring ISO standardization.

    Shame on ISO.

    Shame on everybody that contributed to this farce.

    And finally, Shame On Microsoft - your tradition of success through corruption precedes you!

    Bar

  2. Comment - Microsoft's FAT Patents Upheld

    (Jan 12, 2006 - 9:49 AM)

    >ps, what distro you use?<

    Slackware since 1994.

    Bar
    Canada

  3. Comment - Microsoft's FAT Patents Upheld

    (Jan 11, 2006 - 7:20 PM)

    >This is a bit of a BS statement in general.<

    It is, is it? It appears to me that the US has descended into a corrupt industrial military hegemony where money/power and the religious right rules all, even science and technology.

    You no longer have a free press, your leaders are liars & cheats and you are spending trillions YOU DON'T HAVE!

    Your country is so indebted to the Muslim Saudis that your future is being sold into virtual dhimmitude by your ruling class.

    Your country is known for bullying and backstabbing it's closest partners yet continues to expect respect and obedience and are shocked when it doesn't happen.

    As for your statement about it being 'my gold' that Microsoft uses to buy the 'rules';

    WRONG!!!

    I haven't purchased a Microsoft product in 8 years being a 100% Linux developer/deployer. The problem is I regularly use USB memory sticks and hate the idea that I will be paying for a VFAT license just because your USPO is inept and corrupt.

    So, General, it is YOUR country that is out of control and therefore YOUR responsibility to correct the problem. Unless of course the Iranians nuke 'The Land of The Free' back into the 16th century.

    Bar
    Canada

  4. Comment - Microsoft's FAT Patents Upheld

    (Jan 11, 2006 - 5:54 PM)

    Just another example of the Golden Rule!

    Those with the Gold, make the Rules!

    It must be humiliating to be a US citizen these days.

    Bar
    Canada

  5. Comment - Interview: Corel on Sun, Open Standards

    (Oct 19, 2005 - 2:55 PM)

    Corel today is nothing but a shell of what it was in the past - they are hardly a successful company!

    Corel is a washout, full of promises but no delivery, remember Corel Linux and the Corel Java based office suit?

    Then they suckled from the Microsoft teat ($135 million) and that was the end of Corel.

    As a matter of fact Corel was delisted after it's stock value collapsed and was sold to Vector Capital for about $1 per share (chump change).

    Since then Corel just more or less supports an every shrinking list of clients and customers.

    Corel has heard of innovation, but that was in the past and they associate that word with FAILURE!

    Corel is definately not a significant player, probably still has strong ties to Microsoft so can hardly be classified as an independant player.

    Bar