softwarecrimesyndicate

"This wouldn’t be the first time that the ISO was bought and sold like a $3 hooker"

"it seems clear that Microsoft wants to affect ODF for the same reasons it wants to influence open source. It’s about Office, Windows and, above all, it is about the shareholders"

"How ‘dare’ anyone mess with Microsoft and impose the law upon it? How ‘dare’ anybody fine the company for refusing to comply with the law?"

"Microsoft messed about with ISO, then saw it denying the abuses, and now it proceeds to locking out Free software using pseudo ’standards’. Some things never change, such is as the attitude of Microsoft towards its greatest competitors"

"By ruining the system, existing open standards become irrelevant to be replaced by proprietary ones"

"Microsoft shamelessly litters the Web with fake marketing blogs ands false testimonies. This is nothing new, but evidence shows that it still goes on. As usual, Microsoft does all of this by proxy"

"stopped short of ordering the retailer to sell computers without bundled operating system software"

"Either Jim Allchin lied under oath, to prevent code revelation being any part of the settlement, OR the Microsoft corporation is behaving traitorously, by exposing national security issues to foreign governments"

"Microsoft wishes to exploit its broken OOXML — with SharePoint tags (as part of the ’standard’) — to build a Web-based framework of lock-in. Call it Live Lock-in if you will…"