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● 01.22.07

●● Microsoft Seeks Experts to Corrupt Wikipedia Information on Open XML

Posted in Deception, Formats, FUD, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice at 5:59 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Open XML is an important issue which revolves not only around Microsoft, but also around Novell, who promised to support this so-called ‘standard’ in OpenOffice (see previous stories on this topic). Wait until you hear a little more. Microsoft uses shills to spin the facts.

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…I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML.

This is not the first incident which involves shilling for what Groklaw calls “Monopoly enabler”.

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