____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 27 September 2007 23:34 : \____
> Kier wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:06:04 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Killing Microsoft's Clippy with open source
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Michael Meeks has a tough job. Anyone who's struggled with making
>>>> | documents not created in the Word interface with Microsoft Office
>>>> | should be able to sympathise.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39289664,00.htm?r=3
>>>>
>>>
>>> So where exactly did you find that he is a "Another OOXML Embracer"?
>>
>> Not in this article, certianly.
>
> Exactly. Roy has been making stuff up.
> He is like Mark Kent: Mindlessly hating Novell. Because Novell acted
> different than the GPL3-mob wanted them to do
>
>> Good interview, BTW.
>
> Yes, it is. It takes quite a lot of mindless hatred to read idiocy
> like "Another OOXML Embracer" into it
>
> Roy, whatever you did smoke: Leave it to cretins like DFS or billwg.
> It is bad for linux when "advocates" (you *do* advocacy, do you?) are
> outright lying and misrepresenting what people actually say.
>From someone who knows that stuff (not me):
"And now that I remember well, the guy who wrote the bootstrap is Michael
Meeks, Novell employee, a contributor to the OpenOffice project (not entirely
sure if he only contributes to the Novell branch, or to the regular OpenOffice
branch as well), old contributor of Gnumeric, close friend of Miguel."
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/05/silverlight-mono-novell/#comment-1949
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