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● 06.13.08

●● Alex Brown’s ODF Hostility Still Noted

Posted in Deception, Europe, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument at 5:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

More downplaying of Microsoft’s abuses. Alex says:

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Denmark has not appealed. What appears to have happened in Denmark is that an open source lobby group has written a letter to the Danish Standards body. That is not “Denmark protesting”.

Many people in Denmark did protest (see the rant below for example, along with coverage on Denmark here). Need the opposition come out to the streets too? Watch this space because, as a few source pointed out, Alex Brown is bound to have some influence inside ODF.

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“37 letters with exactly the same words. Some of the senders didn’t even care to remove the ‘Type company name here’ text. Simular letters has been circulating in Denmark as an e-mail from the Danish MD Jørgen Bardenfleth to customers and business partners. I call it fraud, cheating and disgusting. If I wasn’t anti-Microsoft before, I am now. Disgusting !”

–Leif Lodahl

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