User 162757

Sun, IBM Hide Behind "Document Freedom Day" to Attack Microsoft

"Orwellian double-think, propagandistic... signs of what used to be called a front group when Orwell attacked totalitarianism are all over the web site."

You are long on accusations and short on examples... Care to point to something specific on the website that supports your assertion?

"‘Open Standards’ is really a political manipulation of language anyway. They are simply words certain technology junkies hurl at others to indicate displeasure over technical features and functions they do not like… and therefore believe no one else should be allowed to choose."

Who is attempting to ban anyone from using Microsoft Office Open XML or any other feature or function they don't consider open? Microsoft is free to offer features and functions with hidden implementations all they want. And consumers are free to use them all they want, or to reject them. That does not make pointing out alternatives with plainly visible features and functions Orwellian or political.

"DFD is simply about Sun and IBM trying to recapture market share they have lost over the years because of inferior products."

You presume that Microsoft's office suite attained its market dominance by offering superior features and functions. It didn't. Have a look at past court rulings concerning Microsoft's market behavior around Internet Explorer and Windows itself. What ODF is about is leveling the playing field that Microsoft dominates through strong-arm tactics, rather than product superiority.

You also plainly try to attach IBM and Sun Microsystems to Document Freedom Day and to that web site's organization. I see plenty of links to external organizations on the website, including Linux user groups and well-known ODF promotional websites, none to IBM or Sun. A quick glance at the membership rosters for those promotional groups shows that they are not unilateral front groups for either company.

So, here's your chance to educate me, and other's you apparently consider brainwashed, about the evils of IBM's and Sun's support for ODF, their opposition to Office Open XML, and the virtues of Microsoft's products, protocols and file formats.