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Microsoft and Incompatibility: 1991-2010 -- And a Novell Smoking Gun

Another gruesome exhibit is now finished as text in our collection of Comes v. Microsoft exhibits, Exhibit 1116 [PDF].
It's a Microsoft memo from 1991, regarding a suggested attack plan to beat out IBM's OS/2, written by Joseph Krawczak, currently group program manager for Outlook at Microsoft. Here are just three damning sentences from the confidential memo:

Pursue a product development strategy that prevents IBM from claiming Windows compatibility. Prevent Windows applications from running correctly on OS/2....
Reposition OS/2 as impractical and incompatible in the minds of customers.

Nice. First quietly create incompatibilities to make sure that Microsoft applications wouldn't run right on OS/2. Then tell the world that they shouldn't buy OS/2 because Microsoft applications wouldn't run right on OS/2.
But 1991 is a long time ago, I hear some of you say, and there is a new Microsoft. Oh? Let's see if that's so by highlighting one of the recent Novell filings with the SEC, its work agreement with Microsoft titled "Improving Microsoft-Novell Interoperability through Open XML" and dated March of this very year.
It's regarding work Microsoft was willing to pay Novell to do to make Microsoft's cynically misnamed Open XML seem like it allows interoperability. Novell has been at work since March to make Novell's version of OpenOffice.org interoperate, sort of, but as you will see not completely with Microsoft Office 2010 so that it would at least look like Open XML works and that somebody is implementing it.
What a role for Novell to agree to play. We've had our suspicions for years, since Microsoft and Novell entered into its patent peace agreement and technical work agreement, and now we know that everything we suspected Novell was doing with its version of OpenOffice.org, it was. It is. This is the smoking gun. And the work agreement runs through November of 2011, so this story isn't over yet.

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send_sound(1)						      General Commands Manual						     send_sound(1)

NAME

       send_sound - play an audio file

SYNOPSIS

       [-format_switch] [] [] [] [] []

DESCRIPTION

       This  command  plays an audio file.  is the command used when you double-click an audio file from the HP VUE File Manager.  The file begins
       playing, according to the settings of the Audio Control Panel.

       is one these formats:

			   Sun file format

			   NeXT file format

			   Microsoft RIFF Waveform file format

			   MuLaw format

			   ALaw

			   linear 16-bit format

			   offset (unsigned) linear 8-bit format

			   linear 8-bit format

		      If you omit the filename with this option, plays the audio data from

       plays the file on the output of an audio server
		      identified by system which is either a system name or a TCP/IP address.

       plays the file the
		      number of times you supply.  Note that you cannot use this option if the source is a filename is required.

       plays file with the
		      priority you supply, either or

       sets the sample
		      rate of the source audio.

       plays the audio file at the sampling
		      rate you enter.

       plays a stereo file.  This option
		      is needed only for a raw data file with stereo data.

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

       NeXT is a trademark of NeXT Computers, Inc.

       Microsoft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

SEE ALSO

       audio(5), asecure(1M), aserver(1M), attributes(1), convert(1).

																     send_sound(1)