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Exploring Choice
Open source folks love choice, because the supply of programmers who think they
can do better is endless. sendmail vs. postfix, kde vs. gnome, konqueror vs. firefox,
perl vs. python. mySql vs. postgresql. vi vs. emacs. netbeans vs. eclipse. freeBSD vs.
netBSD vs. openBSD. Go to a package manager in Ubuntu (there's choice there) and
search for office software packages. Shoot, look for sound editors, and notice that
they all support mp3, wav/aiff, and ogg.

As for the final paragraph, we have a document standard, odf, and there are, let's
call them vendors, and users. I don't see any sulking withdrawals from the prize
not reached.

If anything OOXML is an end around large public institutional customers who were
troubled by the expense of locked-in file formats and who were starting to do
something about it. An ISO imprimatur on OOXML doesn't make the problem or the
costs go away and so, at best, this has been a way to give a short-term talking
point to its dispatched lobbyists, in short, a defensive, stalling action on
Microsoft's part. We've been seeing quite a few of those from Redmond the past
couple of years.
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Of course open source folks hate choice.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/22/08
Choice  Tim Patterson | 02/22/08
Then CHOOSE to use something else.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/23/08
Sounds like your typical modus operandi.  B.O.F.H. | 02/22/08
Sounds like I quoted the author.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/23/08
I know you think you did.  B.O.F.H. | 02/23/08
Nice try, for such a limited person.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/23/08
No, that is just your twisted interpretation.  B.O.F.H. | 02/23/08
Exploring Choice  DannyO_0x98 | 02/23/08
And yet, tha author is whining about users having more than one choice.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/23/08
I think you've missed the point  maldain | 02/25/08
Yes, completely  Fred Fredrickson | 02/26/08
Microsoft always fishes in muddy waters ...  Golodh2 | 02/24/08
You can have any color car you want, as long as its black.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/22/08
Except for...  zkiwi | 02/22/08
You make my point nicely.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/23/08
Since when did you "speak" for Open Source?  Zogg | 02/23/08
Your rant is meaningless  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/23/08
You seem to have missed the entire point of the article.  Zogg | 02/23/08
True, ODF and BetaMax have much in common  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/25/08
Consumers did not choose..  Patrick Jones | 02/25/08
To be specific:  Joel R | 02/25/08
Probably a waste of breath, but...  Zogg | 02/25/08
What choice?  green alien | 02/25/08
[Retry] Since when did you "speak" for Open Source?  Zogg | 02/23/08
No_Ax_to_Grind doesn't know the difference between standards & Open Source  B.O.F.H. | 02/23/08
HArd to tell them apart when its the same  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/23/08
Mostly its this guy No_Ax_to_Grind that is ranting endlessly.  B.O.F.H. | 02/23/08
Gee BOFH, who wote the whiny article?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/25/08
Tired old astroturfers...  mdielmann | 02/25/08
Let's analize that for a moment, shall we?  B.O.F.H. | 02/23/08
Nothing in your post addresses the TOPIC  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/23/08
you should have read your own post (that I responded to)  B.O.F.H. | 02/23/08
And none of it has anything to do with file formats.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/25/08
But that's not true  maldain | 02/25/08
now THAT's funny... coming from a microshaftie roflmao (nt)  jmelnik | 02/26/08
not the best paralel  American Hawk | 02/22/08
SOP for Microsoft ...  MisterMiester | 02/22/08
Incrediable...  BanjoPaterson | 02/23/08
RE: Incredible  bfilipiak@... | 02/25/08
RE: Of DVDs and documents  mcilweyn@... | 02/23/08
suldaan  mcilweyn@... | 02/23/08
ODF is full of holes and lack interoperability  Multivac | 02/25/08
How dare you use facts!!! This is the ZDNet talkbacks  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/25/08
Actually  roaming | 02/25/08
Speaking of facts..  TtfnJohn | 03/01/08
Beating one's head against a brick wall  Ole Man | 03/01/08
Blu-Ray has many more problems...  Narg | 02/25/08
Welcome to Sony  msdead | 02/25/08
"Older players?"  TrackStar1682 | 02/25/08
Actually, people *ARE* sorry!  SteveMak | 02/25/08
I'm not alone...  FeMaster@... | 02/25/08
About movies and openness  green alien | 02/25/08
Chunk all your DVD's in the trash  Ole Man | 03/01/08

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