I had the privilege of speaking at the same conference as [Peter Quinn] recently, and he told me his goal as CIO was never to discriminate between or against vendors, but to address the issue that in the use of computers, people have focused a lot on the short term. - Simon Phipps Quotes
I had the privilege of speaking at the same conference as [Peter Quinn] recently, and he told me his goal as CIO was never to discriminate between or against vendors, but to address the issue that in the use of computers, people have focused a lot on the short term. Simon Phipps
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If the ODF Alliance had existed a few month's ago it would have been a lot easier for Massachusetts to focus on the technology issues rather than the personalities involved. - Simon Phipps Quotes

If the ODF Alliance had existed a few month's ago it would have been a lot easier for Massachusetts to focus on the technology issues rather than the personalities involved.

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The strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish has not necessarily gone away, - Simon Phipps Quotes

The strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish has not necessarily gone away,

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You don't need to fear diversity in tagging vocabularies. They are inevitable, because businesses are so diverse, ... But if you're going to live with differences, you're going to need strong transformation technologies. That's why the key to XML is not representation, but rather transformation. - Simon Phipps Quotes

You don't need to fear diversity in tagging vocabularies. They are inevitable, because businesses are so diverse, ... But if you're going to live with differences, you're going to need strong transformation technologies. That's why the key to XML is not representation, but rather transformation.

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They expected this and never got it. - Simon Phipps Quotes

They expected this and never got it.

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We will continue to have this problem with drifting file formats and the loss of society's memory. That will continue to be a problem until there is a multi lateral baseline file format. - Simon Phipps Quotes

We will continue to have this problem with drifting file formats and the loss of society's memory. That will continue to be a problem until there is a multi lateral baseline file format.

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By getting its specification approved by a standards body that does not allow individual members is a strategy to make sure that Microsoft continues to control that standard and thus prevent it from becoming a baseline. At the same time, Microsoft is also trying to prevent a multilateral file format from being implemented. - Simon Phipps Quotes

By getting its specification approved by a standards body that does not allow individual members is a strategy to make sure that Microsoft continues to control that standard and thus prevent it from becoming a baseline. At the same time, Microsoft is also trying to prevent a multilateral file format from being implemented.

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The first thing they could do is open up their software to get help fixing all the bugs in their products. - Simon Phipps Quotes

The first thing they could do is open up their software to get help fixing all the bugs in their products.

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I recently talked with a CIO who expressed the view that [open source] was free, but his experience was that it cost him a lot of money. - Simon Phipps Quotes

I recently talked with a CIO who expressed the view that [open source] was free, but his experience was that it cost him a lot of money.

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It is beginning to dawn on users that this is a matter of long-term ethical responsibility. We need to preserve our heritage and make sure that when the great things are done by various politicians, representatives and civil servants we will be able to, in 30 to 50 years, actually read the material. - Simon Phipps Quotes

It is beginning to dawn on users that this is a matter of long-term ethical responsibility. We need to preserve our heritage and make sure that when the great things are done by various politicians, representatives and civil servants we will be able to, in 30 to 50 years, actually read the material.

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We want to make clear what the benefits of using ODF are for government users who have a strong concern the documents they are creating remain a part of their history and heritage, rather than being lost in a digital Alzheimer's as document formats change. - Simon Phipps Quotes

We want to make clear what the benefits of using ODF are for government users who have a strong concern the documents they are creating remain a part of their history and heritage, rather than being lost in a digital Alzheimer's as document formats change.

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