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Re: India Reject of Microsoft a 'Sputnik'

____/ Linonut on Saturday 25 August 2007 15:29 : \____

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> ____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Saturday 25 August 2007 03:40 : \____
>>
>>> This months rejection of the MS document formats by India is the
>>> equivalent of the Russians launching a Sputnik into orbit.
>>> 
>>> The USA needs to catch up to the worldwide selection of Linux.
>>
>> Add China to this. The world's largest two population opposed the abuse by
>> American imperialists. China has Zoho, among other wells of innovation and
>> development. They can cope on their own by merging UOF (?) with ODF and
>> never getting any contact with that disease called OOXML (the second "O"
>> stands for "Ouch" because it's by no means open).
> 
> It's been very instructive watching how uncannily well Microsoft's
> program of astroturfing, packing the gallery, dissimulation, spin,
> misrepresentation, and lobbying has been doing.
> 
> Bastards.

One has to wonder if Enron could still be around if it had the wealth and
influence of Microsoft.

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