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Story: Microsoft: We won't sue over future OOXML versions

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Posted by: Moley (Friday 28 March 2008, 8:54 PM)

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Worth a look ...

Have a look at this analysis on Groklaw

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080326151405938

which suggests plenty of loopholes in M$'s OSP which will enable a continued lockin to M$ Office programmes and thereby M$ Windows.

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