Quote of the day

If Microsoft had used Open Standards from the moment it was founded in 1975, this problem would not exist.

Couldn’t have put it better myself! The problem being discussed is, you guessed it, Microsoft’s proprietary file formats.

Via Chris Linfoot from the Free Software Foundation Europe, on the beeb

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  grahamchastney (814 days)

  Perhaps a better quote would be – “If Microsoft had used Open Standards from the moment it was founded in 1975, it would now be Sun”…

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  Simon Scullion (814 days)

  Yep, agreed, a valid alternative.

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  grahamchastney (814 days)

  Perhaps a better quote would be – “If Microsoft had used Open Standards from the moment it was founded in 1975, it would now be Sun”…

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  Simon Scullion (813 days)

  Yep, agreed, a valid alternative.

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