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It surprises me when people lump Oracle (or AWS for that matter) in with the likes of Microsoft.

• ghaff 5y ago
  Why? They're all enterprise software companies. They participate in open source to greater or lesser degrees. They seem absolutely part of the same category. This isn't either positive or negative commentary but just observation of what they do as businesses.
• ipaddr 5y ago
  You are right Microsoft could be a more difficult entity to deal with.
• nextaccountic 5y ago
  The process to make MS-OOXML an ISO standard was a dirty one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open... and 2008 wasn't that long ago
  • dafelst 5y ago
    Ballmer era Microsoft is a very different beast to Nadella era Microsoft
    • yrro 5y ago
      I don't see Microsoft jumping to fix all the interop issues their software has with ODF.
• christophilus 5y ago
  In that Microsoft is way worse or way better? I’m not clear, because they’re all pretty scummy.