Over at An Antic Disposition, Rob Weir compares Micorsoft’s attempt to pass off OOXML as a standard to Diogenes the Cynic’s response to Plato’s definition of man.
Plato, teaching in the Akademia grove, defined Man as “a biped, without feathers.” This was answered by the original smart-ass, Diogenes of Sinope, aka Diogenes the Cynic, who showed up shortly after with a plucked chicken, saying, “Here is Plato’s Man.”
Was Diogenes the Cynic a Microsoft shill?
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