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Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 23 February 2006, 6:49 PM)

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Whatever. Office 12's file formats are fuly documented and XML-based. Vista's 'Avalon' presentation framework is also XML-based and fully documented. That's going to make it really hard for IBM Global Services to sell you a multi-million-dollar, outsourced contract to develop with it, now isn't it?

Open Sourcerers need to stop allowing themselves to be exploited by the likes of IBM, Sun and Oracle.

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