Wednesday September 05, 2007 links for 2007-09-05
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Fascinating and excellent historical document that gives perspective on the XML Specification and how it came to be what it is.
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"A ballot on whether to publish ... Office Open XML file formats, as an International Standard by ISO ... has not achieved the required number of votes for approval."
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Joe Wilcox expresses the same amazement I felt when I read Microsoft's press release, which asymptotically approaches untruth as it seeks to deceive less professional journalists into writing the wrong story.
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Looks like a bait-and-switch (get popular as open source then switch licenses and go proprietary).
Posted by webmink
( Sep 05 2007, 01:27:57 AM PDT )
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http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1270810,00.html
No wonder Netapp won't accept CDDL code.
Posted by John Birrell on September 05, 2007 at 02:47 PM PDT #
Yes, so much becomes clear doesn't it. Sun's response[1] refutes some of the assertions they make .
[1] http://blogs.sun.com/ontherecord/entry/sun_statement_re_netapp_lawsuit
Posted by Simon Phipps on September 06, 2007 at 05:28 AM PDT #