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1. Comment - Microsoft's Interop Chief: People Should Choose Their Own Standards

   (Jun 18, 2007 - 2:43 PM)

   Ain't gonna happen. Nobody wants to convert anything.

2. Comment - Microsoft's Interop Chief: People Should Choose Their Own Standards

   (Jun 16, 2007 - 7:21 PM)

   Granted MS has a firm grip on many "standards". Over a decade of market penetration has done wonders for making MS Office standard fare.
   
   While it sucks they have locked everyone into using Word, etc.; It's a done deal. You can't un-ring a bell.
   
   Big business isn't simply going to toss themselves under the bus, and convert to some half-baked new format tomorrow, to bail themselves out of lock-in. It doesn't work like that.
   
   No big deal for Joe Sixpack to start using ODF. Huge deal for a company or state with millions, if not billions of existing documents in Word format to do so.

3. Comment - GPL 'Last Call Draft' Removes Language Threatening to Novell

   (Jun 1, 2007 - 10:04 PM)

   The only thing I understand about GPL version anything; It's starving the very people who create open source software. Every version gets worse.
   
   FREE everything is great. However, it doesn't feed the wife and kids, pay the mortgage, or make the car payments.

4. Comment - Linux Foundation: We Have Our Own Patent 'Arsenal'

   (May 26, 2007 - 11:24 PM)

   It would be so cool to see MS roll their own version of Linux.

5. Comment - Windows Server for Consumers: Is There a Place in the Home?

   (May 25, 2007 - 8:37 PM)

   I wouldn't be so quick to rush to judgement on Windows Home Server. I'm running the beta version of this product, and I'm convinced it has a place.
   
   There are a LOT of people with many Windows systems in their home. This makes a good deal of sense for more reasons than you might imagine.
   
   The 1st being you don't need to be a network geek to set it up.