MS Four Points of Interoperability and Adobe

Andy Updegrove writes "Recently, spokespersons for Microsoft's standards group have been promoting 'design, collaboration and licensing' as alternatives, rather than supplements to, open standards. There's an important difference between an open standard and any of these ad hoc arrangements among companies, however, and that is the fact that with a standard, everybody knows that they can get what everybody else can get, and on substantially the same terms. With a de facto standard, that's not the case - as Microsoft itself found out last week when Adobe refused to offer the same deal on saving files in PDF form that Apple and OpenOffice enjoy."

the next standard from MS

[alexandreracine]

In the news : "Microsoft will emerge a new standard called :"throwing chairs in the right directions"". I bet they will ensure that the market remains in a state of monopolistic competition there too!

I have your four points right here.

[ScrewMaster]

Microsoft's Four Points of Interoperability:

1. Mine.

2. Mine.

3. MINE.

4. MINE!