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With a blog rebuttal the Burton group got funny.

Fud and patent strategy, the patent party starts. Patent FUD and litigation become the preferred tools to combat competitors in the software world. Steve Ballmer plays his role very well. What will that mean for market confidence in the patent mined Open XML proposal from Microsoft?

Joomla 1.5 gives the designer ultimate freedom in the ability to create whatever chrome is appropriate. With joomla 1.5 the need for end users to manually edit variables and settings in template files is ancient history.

At around 1am CET on 2 September, the forty-thousandth person signed the petition protesting against Microsoft's attempts to fast-track the OOXML format through the ISO process.

The Tanzanian Bureau of Standards (TBS) discussed the DIS29500 proposal, under the presence of Nicol Woodard, an american and not tanzanian Microsoft salesman.

How can a 6000 page document move so quick? Enjoy.

"The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector." -- ODF is the Malaysian Government's choice over OOXML!

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OpenXML.info is reporting that IBM and Sun were excluded from participation in the discussions in Portugal by Microsoft himself, who was chairing the meeting, and had many people representing them in the room, not countries their puppets.

Pavel Janik has attended the OOXML workshop organised by the Czech Standardisation Institute: "Can you imagine better way to spend 4 hours of your Friday afternoon time than discussing OOXML problems with non-techies from Microsoft? I can't. Thus I decided to spend this Friday afternoon at Czech standardisation institute, attending the workshop with Microsoft about OOXML specification and its fast-track process."