[odf-discuss] UOF on slashdot (was: Re: Microsoft playing footsie with China?)

[Lars D. Noodén]

My guess would be that MS would be trying to get China to shift away from 
ODF-UOF harmonizaton, even if just in people's minds.

Slashdot has picked up the topic as well:
 	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/21/1819214

However, throwing a handful of resources at a sourceforge project aren't 
going to do much more than generate a lot of PR.

Anyway here is the relevant quote from about 9 years ago.  A thorough lock 
on the file formats or the DRM associated with those formats would be the 
same:

 	"but [in China] people don't pay for the software," he
 	said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are
 	going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get
 	sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
 	collect sometime in the next decade."

 	'Gates, Buffett a bit bearish' CNET 2 Jul 1998.
 	- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html?legacy=cnet
-Lars

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