● 02.19.08

●● Microsoft’s [OOXML] Evangelism is War: Full Text

Posted in Antitrust, Microsoft, Open XML at 1:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

We have sent some text over to Groklaw which transformed the Evangelism is War antitrust exhibit into plain text. Here is the summary of this text, which generates a lot of discussion at the moment.

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In the section of an internal manual on effective evangelism, written in 1997 by James Plamondon, Technical Evangelist, he lays out an elaborate series of steps to get Microsoft’s platforms accepted as de facto standards. Among the steps lists are working behind the scenes with supposedly independent but actually pliable and supportive analysts and consultants.

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This full text will gain a high level of visibility. The Slashdot crowd is possibly on its way. Microsoft’s binary soup will have some frogs leaping out of it just days ahead of the BRM’s opening. Thanks to Slated for extracting text of interest from the document. █

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