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From: Lars Nooden on 12 Mar 2010 13:24
There are some interesting events in Jonathan's post:

Bill skipped the small talk, and went straight to the
point, �Microsoft owns the office productivity market,
and our patents read all over OpenOffice.� OpenOffice
is a free office productivity suite found on tens of
millions of desktops worldwide. It�s a tremendous brand
ambassador for its owner � it also limits the appeal of
Microsoft Office to businesses and those forced to
pirate it. Bill was delivering a slightly more
sophisticated variant of the threat Steve had made, but
he had a different solution in mind. �We�re happy to
get you under license.� That was code for �We�ll go
away if you pay us a royalty for every download� � the
digital version of a protection racket.

http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/

There's also some discussion over at Groklaw:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100309201407886

OOo as itself and as a promoter of ODF cuts deeply into one of
Microsoft's two cash cows, the monopoly on office formats.

/Lars



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