I wrote a comment on David Coursey's blog on e-week in response to the assisine statements by some of these idiots, below is my comment (which basically represents my utter disgust with these communists):
I love reading the comments when anyone at eweek actually writes an article that has a slight notion of not bashing microsoft. In a previous comment someone said it was "immoral" for microsoft not to use a public standard. This is ludicrous. I've taken my business ethics classes and holding onto intellectual property that has become a de-facto standard and industry leader is a sound business practice.
Why would MS care if other office software packages do or do not work with Office? If 90%+ people are using it, what's their incentive for using an open standard? So the people who don't buy their product can view / edit office documents? Why should they give away their advantage. This is still a capitalist economy and if someone comes out with a vastly superior and groundbreaking office suite (and don't tell me openoffice or star office are either of those, I've used them and they aren't) they will start taking market share from MS and maybe then will a open standard become a larger issue.
Firefox is the perfect example of a superior product that is rapidly being adopted right now. MS isn't agile enough to respond to it yet and they are losing their market dominance in the browser wars.
I use some open source products (and other open standards as well) and enjoy it. However, the world market is just that a "market". Things are to be bought and sold... All you open source zealots enjoy building free software and see how long you can pay the mortgage in doing so... Personally, I'm working on software that gets me paid.
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