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Subject: Re: [office] How about an interoperability Subcommittee?
On May 8, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Alex Wang wrote: > I tried to use the example of Java to explain what "balance" means. Sun > kept some IPR of Java ten years ago, give up some of them today, it is > the "balance". Yes, Sun want to create a market by Java, but I don't > think this is the reason that you have very little sympathy for Sun. I > respect Sun, J2EE is more popular than .NET, while Windows, IE, MS > Office becomes the owner of the world. > > I was told "share everything", "free for everything" ever since I was > born. I am a Chinese, this is the Communist Party's education. This > kind > of education still exists in North Korea, and now in OASIS. We treat > IPR > in extremeness attitude, thus a commercial topic becomes a politics > topic. I don't think it is a good manner. With all due respect Alex: 1) you are comparing apples (programming language, VM, etc.) and oranges (standards) 2) Sun has opened up Java recently So your argument isn't really supported by either logic or on-the-ground facts. It's not surprising that many people who are a part of standards work are very suspicious of attaching restrictions to its use (building proprietary tools or applications based on those standards is an entirely different matter). You cannot talk about "balance" and "99%" when talking about standards, and to say as much is hardly "extremism"; it's the entire basis on which our internet-based information economy works. If XML and HTML were released under RAND, there would be no internet as we know it, nor would ODF exist. Bruce
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