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. - Simon Phipps

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

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

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

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