Ridiculous, amusing, inconvenient and even plain worrying things tend to happen in the lead-up to Important Events For Which You Have Planned. Sometimes a certain amount of irony is involved, sometimes it’s Murphy’s law.
I have selected four examples of these sorts of events from today. There were many more, of course, but here are four:
Pia [...]
EPIC FAIL: Australia fails to take a position on OOXML, abstains on final OOXML vote.
It’s disappointing that while our Prime Minister travels the world with a stated intention to increase Australia’s influence and activism on the global stage, we at home have failed so miserably to come to a conclusion — positive or negative — [...]
“When people buy commercial software, really what they’re buying is a guarantee. You’re buying a guarantee that what you have will perform, and has been tested and there’s someone you can call up, and if things go really bad someone’s liable if something doesn’t work.” — Microsoft’s Bill Hilf Reveals Its Open Source Strategy
Of course, [...]
“People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us.” — Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat
Thanks again, Novell!
