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Never underestimate the power of the dark sideNever underestimate the power of the dark sidePosted Nov 29, 2005 21:14 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Never underestimate the power of the dark side by proski Parent article: Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)
Microsoft has extensive experience in going from 0% to 95% of the market share in no time. Think of word processors and web browsers. It took few years in all cases. And in both cases competitors were other proprietary progarms so freedom argument was never ever raised (Netscape opened browser code when was was already lost and unlike OpenOffice 2.0 this code was unsable. Yes, Microsoft is not beaten yet - but this is toughest challege to date.
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