What amazes me about this 2012 Ars #DRM piece: Peter Biddle insists #Microsoft were "the good guys" with best intentions toward open source and formats.
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2/ At the same time, MS fought a proxy bogus-copyright war against
#Linux and threw big $$$ at SCO for their Linux licensing fees. Then they used that as a precedent to make their own direct claims which they refused to disclose publicly.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
3/ Microsoft later waged a war within ISO to prevent them from accepting the open document format.
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4/ Peter Biddle may have been a brilliant engineer, but he was totally delusional about Microsoft's business practices and likely intentions for the sake of entrenched monopoly. The community was right to make them backpedal on their plans.
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I worry we're still playing this "MS must still be good somewhere inside" game. As experts on their monopoly segments, desktop and office software, how are they helping FOSS projects there? What a joke. They should not have been allowed into the @linuxfoundation.
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