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{ Monthly Archives } August 2007

Clarification from MS - and time to eat some humble pie?

Stephen McGibbon of MS points out, tactfully, (in a comment to an earlier article here) that I have not read the MS Open Specification Promise (OSP) carefully enough. At the end it has the words:
… this Promise also applies to the required elements of optional portions of such specifications.

So, just to be clear, let us […]

2007 08 02 Do u love MS? Comments (7)

A small point …

I must have spent hundreds of hours in “drafting meetings” with high-powered (ie expensive) lawyers in investment bank meeting rooms. One thing I learnt was that such people tended to argue equally strongly for minutiae and for major deal-breaking points. Of course, that was correct. We were typically arguing about “prospectuses” and other public domain […]

2007 08 01 Do u love MS? Comments (3)