Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 23, 2007 07:08 PM
"As I have said many times before, if the HTML file format is open, and Microsoft hasn't complained, why not open all Microsoft file formats?"
I don't know how somebody can still be this ignorant.
The fact is that Microsoft has been trying to change the HTML format by introducing their own proprietary extensions and ignoring open standards from w3c. This is why cross browser web development has always been a nightmare, and why alternative browsers have difficulties to render the many "IE only" web sites.
"If the POP3, SMTP, FTP, and IMAP protocols are open, and Microsoft hasn't complained, why not open all Microsoft protocols? You'll find that the answer is the same as in the Novell deal. Money"
Microsoft would change these protocols if they could (remember Kerberos?), but they came to the internet game a little too late for that.
And yes the answer is money. They don't care about their customers - they don't need to. They only care about keeping their monopoly, vendor lockin and making more money for them and their shareholders.
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Re:Hopefully you now understand.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 23, 2007 07:08 PM"As I have said many times before, if the HTML file format is open, and Microsoft hasn't complained, why not open all Microsoft file formats?"
I don't know how somebody can still be this ignorant.
The fact is that Microsoft has been trying to change the HTML format by introducing their own proprietary extensions and ignoring open standards from w3c. This is why cross browser web development has always been a nightmare, and why alternative browsers have difficulties to render the many "IE only" web sites.
"If the POP3, SMTP, FTP, and IMAP protocols are open, and Microsoft hasn't complained, why not open all Microsoft protocols? You'll find that the answer is the same as in the Novell deal. Money"
Microsoft would change these protocols if they could (remember Kerberos?), but they came to the internet game a little too late for that.
And yes the answer is money. They don't care about their customers - they don't need to. They only care about keeping their monopoly, vendor lockin and making more money for them and their shareholders.
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