Brad Knowles(brad.knowles@skynet.be)@2002.08.12 22:47:31 +0000:
At 9:41 AM -0400 2002/08/12, William Warren wrote:
StarOffice to the rescue.
Only until they change the file format again. Microsoft can afford to change the file format on an even daily basis, and come out with patches for the previous patches, and call them all "security patches" so that everyone is either forced to apply them or dump Microsoft altogether.
Open source projects can't possibly afford to keep up, if Microsoft decides to go down this road.
opensource projects need to converge efforts in designing new data formats, file formats being just a serialized representation of data in mem. being fully portable between several (OSS) applications will bring the giant to its knees. of course, all of you know that, and this is not operational content, i'm silent again ;-) regards, /k --
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