Re: Regarding OOXML and Microsoft patents

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms 1407 org>]

There wasn't any name calling. Just statement of facts.

That they aren't favourable... well, saying someone is parroting obvious
talking points is far from calling anyone a fanatic, but maybe that's
just me.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:10:32PM +0200, Christian F.K. Schaller wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> As someone who believes strongly about many things, yet to my knowledge
> always argues the case and never the person I don't see why you are
> coming out defending such behavior here. My criticism was mainly about
> the tone of the debate and for someone who himself never resorted to
> name calling in this discussion I don't see why you feel its defensible
> behavior.
> 
> Christian
> 
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 16:22 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > Since I do not read what Microsoft says in standards group meetings, I
> > thank Rui for informating us that it matches what Miguel de Icaza said
> > here.  Putting that similarity together with the nature of his
> > statements (vague claims that that the criticism of OOXML is flawed),
> > it becomes a cogent argument to mistrust those statements.

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