[odf-discuss] standards schmandards

[Inge Wallin]

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 01:43, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> If you have never done business with Microsoft, this story will make your
> blood run cold.  It is amazing how many hoops Microsoft makes its business
> partners jump through.

Anybody who has his/her blood run cold when reading this hasn't had much 
experience with business.  When a smaller partner meets a bigger one, it's 
always the smaller that have to "sell" to the bigger, at least until the 
smaller one has made it obvious that he's valuable to the bigger one. And 
since MS is bigger than almost anybody, they make the rules.

Most of these things are just "listening to your customer's needs", and since 
MS's needs include ego stroking, the rest just falls out naturally.

	-Inge

> http://digg.com/microsoft/Tips_on_how_to_drink_the_Microsoft_cool_aid_while
>_on_biz_trips_to_Redmond
>
> Please consider digging this article, so that we can get it on the front
> page of Digg!
>
> Despite what Microsoft says about "interoperability," it is obvious from
> this article that the borg will accept nothing less than an all-Microsoft
> world.

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