Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 23, 2005 02:36 PM
From the document: "The draft policy identifies four products that support the OpenDocument format: Sun’s StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, KOffice, and IBM Workplace. In reality, these products are slight variations of the same StarOffice code base, which Sun acquired from a German company in 1999. The different names are little more than unique brands applied by the vendors to the various flavors of the code base that they have developed. In essence, a commitment to the OpenDocument format is a commitment to a single product or technology. This approach to product selection by policy violates well-accepted public procurement norms."
KOffice has *nothing* to do with the StarOffice codebase, neither has Abiword that is missing from that list.
Now, shouldn't a general manager at Microsoft know that when he thinks he can sign a paper of this significance?
If he did, wouldn't that be a violation of well-accepted norms like the concept of "honesty"?
To the people at Microsoft, here's an explanation of this concept: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honesty" title="wikipedia.org">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honesty</a wikipedia.org>
But you might say: "What if he didn't know about the truth?". Now, that would make him incompetent.
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Yates states wrong facts to support his agenda
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 23, 2005 02:36 PM"The draft policy identifies four products that support the OpenDocument format: Sun’s StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, KOffice, and IBM Workplace. In reality, these products are slight variations of the same StarOffice code base, which Sun acquired from a German company in 1999. The different names are little more than unique brands applied by the vendors to the various flavors of the code base that they have developed. In essence, a commitment to the OpenDocument format is a commitment to a single product or technology. This approach to product selection by policy violates well-accepted public procurement norms."
KOffice has *nothing* to do with the StarOffice codebase, neither has Abiword that is missing from that list.
Now, shouldn't a general manager at Microsoft know that when he thinks he can sign a paper of this significance?
If he did, wouldn't that be a violation of well-accepted norms like the concept of "honesty"?
To the people at Microsoft, here's an explanation of this concept: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honesty" title="wikipedia.org">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honesty</a wikipedia.org>
But you might say: "What if he didn't know about the truth?". Now, that would make him incompetent.
<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=incompetent" title="reference.com">http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=incompet<nobr>e<wbr></nobr> nt</a reference.com>
Take your pick.
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