Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Steven Shelton wrote:
I saw this on Jean Hollis Weber's blog at O'Reilly and I referenced
it in my blog (although I couldn't trackback to it because I couldn't
find a trackback URL on her page).
What's a trackback URL?
A trackback URL is a URL that allows people who reference your blog to
notify your server that it's been referenced. Most blogs also put a list
of blogs that have referenced them in a list underneath each entry,
although not all do this.
This is very cool, although I'm sure Microsoft will say "these aren't
signatures from our customers; these are people who have no intention
of buying our product." Any excuse, any excuse.
It's irrelevant what Microsoft might say. In fact, I'd be absolutely
delighted if Microsoft spoke out against the petition in public. More
publicity for ODF!
I'm surprised that some people (not you) seem to think that the
purpose of this petition is to effect change at Microsoft. Of course
it would be great if the petition had that effect. But surely
marketing people know that the main value of a petition like this is
to generate publicity ... in this case for OpenDocument.
Naturally! They'll have to respond in some manner, but like I said, I
think it'll be in an off-hand dismissive way. Not that it matters. The
point is that we can demonstrate they're being disingenuous (which I
can't spell).
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Steven Shelton
Twilight Media & Design
www.TwilightMD.com
www.GLOAMING.us
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