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Microsoft Pledges Conditional Support for ODF 241

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @09:51AM from the you-can't-say-grudging-respect-without-grudge dept.

Macthorpe writes "BetaNews is reporting that Microsoft has announced in a letter that they will support ODF as a format option, if it doesn't 'restrict choice among formats'. Citing their lack of opposition to the ratification of ODF as a standard, they go on to say: 'ODF's design may make it attractive to those users that are interested in a particular level of functionality in their productivity suite or developers who want to work that format. Open XML may be more attractive to those who want richer functionality [...] This is not to say that one is better than the other — just that they meet different needs in the marketplace.'"

Thai IT Minister Slams Open Source 520

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 16, 2006 @03:09AM from the not-good-enough dept.

patiwat writes "Thailand's newly appointed Information and Communications Technology Minister has slammed open source software as useless and full of bugs: 'With open source, there is no intellectual property. Anyone can use it and all your ideas become public domain. If nobody can make money from it, there will be no development and open source software quickly becomes outdated... As a programmer, if I can write good code, why should I give it away? Thailand can do good source code without open source.' This marks a sharp u-turn in policy from that of the previous government."

Comment Re:If the cold-fusion people got even 1% of the mo (Score 2, Informative) 447

by Tilps on Saturday August 21, 2004 @08:33PM (#10035072) Attached to: First Plasma on the Levitated Dipole Experiment

Many people fail to realise that the 'laws of entropy' aren't laws, they're statements of statistical likelihoods. Entryopy can spontaneously decrease, its just incredibly incredibly incredibly unlikely to do so by any statistically significant amount.
But in this case entropy isnt realy relevent.
If you want every partical in your body to simultaneously 'jump' one foot to the left. All you have to do is ... jump one foot to the left.

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