is it only me

is it only me

Posted Jul 6, 2006 18:04 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: is it only me by ccyoung
Parent article: Microsoft to make an open source ODF translator

No, it's just enough to have it as an "open source, ouside project" they can (rightly!) blame when things go south (they won't have the inside information to get it right in each nook and crany, will they?), being able to claim that they are "Open Source too", all whilst being able to say that even open source competition has enough access to their stuff to build compatible software.

A brilliant PR move, if you ask me. Won't be much else, for sure.

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