Your Mail: Open Debate About OpenDocument

Fox News ^ | 10/12/05 | various

[steve-b]

James Prendergast's column, Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument, touched a nerve among FOXnews.com's tech savvy readers and ignited a heated response.

Below is a sample of some of the mail we received:

[snip lengthy list of corrections to the "Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument" astroturf piece.]

Editor's Note:

The column "Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument" that appeared on FOXnews.com Sept. 28 identified author James Prendergast as executive director of Americans for Technology Leadership, but failed to disclose that Microsoft is a founding member of that organization.

[steve-b]

When Fox News finds out that they were played for shills by a scam artist, they fess up to it. Mary Mapes and Dan Rather, please copy.

[flashbunny]

And some of the usual suspects here denied that being the head of microsoft front group has nothing to do with the opinion piece....

"If MA adopts the open document standard, the red chinese commies will overrun the entire country!!!"

[Petronski]

Every time you create an Open Document file, God kills a kitten.

[Petronski]

Do you realize that ODF is
the most monstrously conceived and
dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

[PAR35]

Every time you create an Open Document file, God kills a kitten.

Is that good or bad?

[Miss Behave]

Every time you open a document, someone has access to your precious bodily fluids.

[ShadowAce]

[Petronski]

ODF ping.

[Petronski]

Ah, but the Open Document format...that's where I had them.
I proved beyond a doubt and with geometric that it was
a monstrous communist plot . . .

[Miss Behave]

Whoops, meant to say: Every time you create an Open Document file, someone has access to your precious bodily fluids.

I'm having a bad day--can't think straight. Maybe someone's already got ahold of my fluids and is draining them.

[Petronski]

Not drained, but I do suspect they're being sapped and impurified.... ;O)

[Miss Behave]

LOL, Ski. God I love Bogey. My dad has great posters of him in his basement. It's a cool place--great old bar, big picture windows, and a half-keg on tap at all times for one's drinking pleasure desires. I'll see if he can get Straubs next time. ;-)

[Miss Behave]

And distributed. ;-)

[Still Thinking]

Your dad has picture windows in his basement?? Is his house cut into the side of a hill?

[antiRepublicrat]

When Fox News finds out that they were played for shills by a scam artist, they fess up to it.

Not only did they fess up, they published commentary of the opposing view, fessing up again at the bottom. Fox does do some things that make me wonder, especially treating Bush a little too nice, but this shows integrity.

[Still Thinking]

Every time you open a document, someone has access to your precious bodily fluids.

Oh, I don't know. Sharing access to my bodily fluids is kind of an avocation of mine. ;-)

[Mount Athos]

Great, openoffice is free. I'll download it and give it a try.

[antiRepublicrat]

Sharing access to my bodily fluids is kind of an avocation of mine

Waaaay too much information.

[Miss Behave]

Yes, Still. It's an awesome location and piece-o-property, with an ubelievably beautiful view.

[postaldave]

what does the Oregon Department of Forestry have to do with anything?