[ossig] The Netherlands going OSS, Microsoft objects

[Khairil Yusof]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 17:08 +0800, Hasannudin Saidin wrote:
> Ditesh,
> 
> You wanna write to the author and clarify to him the difference
> between open source and open standards? You once reported on the Dutch
> plan for open standards:
> http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/09/the-dutch-plan-.html#comment-93379808
> 
> The author is probably this guy: http://www.tobysterling.net
> 
> 
> Or perhaps "Open Office XML" (sic) from Microsoft is indeed going open
> source?

This mistake still seems to be quite common, my colleague did it twice
at GIF guide launch.

It gets much worse when it comes to copyrights, licensing, patents and
trademarks.

"Unlicensed Software"
"Copyright Free"
"We lose ownership"
"It has IP infringements"

It gets quite tiring, and and I feel like I'm becoming RMS.