I had to scrap the first strip because I’d confused Office Open with Open Office when writing it. Who’d have guessed people could make that kind of mistake. Not Microsoft, surely.
- Wikipedia.org: Office Open XML
- Grokdoc: OOXML objections
- Miguel de Icaza: The EU Prosecutors are Wrong
- Rob Weir: Miguel de Icaza is wrong
- Consortiuminfo.org: 20 Nations Respond
- Wylug-discuss: Why Office Document Standardisation Matters to *Everyone*
- Microsoft.com: Financial Highlights
- odfalliance.org: Open Document Format has cash too!
- Style.org: Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms
- Need a new t-shirt with a theoretical computer scientist on it?
20 replies on “Orifice Open”
Damn ISO, damn M$ and damn that Lisa…. Someone in ISO is getting some moneeeeeeeeyyyyyy!
Oh really… they SHOULD get some money don’t they.
OK… who’s that on the left?
(ad who’s that on the Tshirt on the left?)
Zen koan time:
How many standards does $40B buy?
What is the sound of one shill blogging?
Which is cheaper to buy, the ISO or IOC?
You mean Linus? He had something to do with Linux, I think… :-P
The one on the right is Linus Torvalds. The shirt has the face of Miguel de Icaza, one of the founders of Ximian and the GNOME project.
what happened to linus’s eyebrows?
:(
Boy, that is a goofy picture of linus this week.
He looks like a cross between Linus and the California governator.
When is the Che Stallman t-shirt going to be available?
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/more-matter-with-less-art.html
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This one isn’t nearly crude enough and it was published a mere 11 days after the previous. Standards around here are really falling!
I prefer Torvalds with asynchronous eyebrows.
An African or European one?
Huh? I don’t know that. Aaarrgh!
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