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It was another late night session, but Mark Peterson and I managed to record more than two hours of give and take repartee on the role of open vs. property standards in the Massachusetts Open Standards Requirements case. Mark is definitely far more pro-Microsoft than I am, but to listeners of the podcast I also want to point out my own personal philosophy on this.
Though I have nothing but respect for the talent and calibre of programmers and technical professionals there, they have had a tendendency to make business decisions that I personally see as running counter to the best interests of both developers and computer users. What’s more, I believe that when any company has as much power and influence in the computer industry as Microsoft does, it needs to also be held to a higher level and standard of accountability.
