Re: Regarding OOXML and Microsoft patents

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

> Meanwhile, if it is hard for Microsoft to fully implement a 600 page
> spec, that just reinforces the point that it is hard for us to
> implement a 6000 page spec.

And this has been the Microsoft plan for "standards" for many years. In
fact their own leaked memos say exactly this. Miguel - you might want to
look harder at who you trust some day. The decommoditization of protocols
and attack by complexity of standards stuff is even in the original
Halloween document leaks