Microsoft / Linux Interoperability

Romanus81 · 05-24-2008, 01:43 PM

I just saw a video advertisement for this, and I was wondering what reasons Microsoft would have for this program. Does anyone know what's going on?

2damncommon · 05-24-2008, 02:06 PM

Embrace, extend and extinguish

2damncommon · 05-25-2008, 04:45 PM

My previous reply was very short.

Perhaps this will help you weigh your decision to the length Microsoft will go to further it's agenda.

Quote:

Microsoft has just launched a program called OnMyWay, by which Microsoft will offer training and financial help to young people...
...if you look at who is on the list of those who have gotten help from the program already, you see groups from the UK, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland and Italy. I took a look at how each country on this list voted on OOXML in March.

The Czech Republic, the UK, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Norway all voted to approve OOXML.

This was a change for each of them. In September, the Czech Republic, the UK, Denmark, and Norway had voted to disapprove, so this was a change in Microsoft's favor. Finland abstained in September, and it voted to approve in March as well.