Bill Gates announces he's leaving his day-to-day role at Microsoft, and practically simultaneously MS releases an Office plug-in that lets you easily label documents with Creative Commons liscenses (supposedly).
tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=10...
Now it seems they're doing an about-face on Open Document compatibility, because of pressures from governments. Holy cow! This is something MS explicitly stated it would never do.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog...
theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/mic...
