Open XML from MS?

Reminds me of the debate I had with Peter Moore of MS Singapore a the Accenture CIO workshop in 2003 about the fact that their "openness" is really a lie. FWIW, all Peter could do was to smile.

The games MS will continue to play

This discusses how MS wants to coerce using absolutely stupid "IP" excuses to lock out open source developers. It is still not clear yet, it should be obvious that doing the mono is a dead end (it was a dead end to start with, now it is even more obvious).