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Microsoft's national technology officer had an interesting comment during the Red Hat Summit in Boston about who "won" the ODF and OOXML battle. And the reason why is equally interesting.
«Two days ago, there was an interesting post by Andrzej Jaworski, entitled “[Haskell] Teach theory then Haskell as example,” [...] In my response, I listed the following publications on category theory, a branch of mathematics which forms a theoretical framework for Haskell...»
Just days after accusations had been made against IBM and a ban put in place, IBM was cleared of all charges and the ban was lifted. The Register was quick with its report and so was The Inquirer.
Famous Personalities of Computer Science
I am trying to collect photos of Famous Personalities of Computer Science.
Charles Babbage (Father of Computer), Blaise Pascal (Father of Programming Language), Alan Turing ( Father of Computer Science)
Claude E Shannon (Father of Information Theory).... and more
The story is not over yet and with various ongoing investigations, antitrust concerns and enormous scrutiny, this battle won’t be an easy one for Microsoft. Over at Groklaw, it’s even stated that OOXML “sits on hold”.
The latest news or — shall we assume — the latest development in this alleged proxy fight against GNU/Linux (one among many if true, some of which are not even secret), is the appointment of a senior SCO man who found himself in Microsoft. His role there is particularly interesting
I just read an interesting story about how Microsoft is (by proxy) cleverly using the same law that was just smacked over its head for Windows market dominance against IBM's mainframe base in Europe.
