[odf-discuss] Great story about the Asus EEE PC, which runs OOo, of course

Lars Noodén lars at umich.edu
Sat Jan 5 14:58:46 EST 2008


Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> This is a really great story about how the Asus EEE PC is commoditizing
> Microsoft's lunch. ...

And ODF fits in because the key there would be the availability of
commodity protocols and, to a growing extent, data formats.

> ... Unfortunately, it appears that paid Microsoft
> consultantsare already trying to bury it as "inaccurate", but it's of course
> highly accurate.  This is a great opportunity to help keep a good story
> afloat on digg.
> 
> http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Most_Hated_Company_In_the_PC_Industry

Things seemed to have been primed for the new year.  I wonder how long
M$ was organizing this and what the best way to work around it would be.
I suppose it just comes down to needing an OCD-style monitoring like
with Wikipedia.  It would be nice for there to be other options.

-Lars



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