Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?) - Article 1069 - go-pugleaf

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Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)

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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00

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In <908142041snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) writes:

>In article <362110c7.23159181@news.concentric.net>
>           darrow@oneillaw.com "M O'Neill" writes:
>> clearly formats have to change to take new features into account.  

>Rubbish. It would be quite easy to devise a format that allows 
>new features to be added, but still lets old software read the new
>files, igniring new features where necessary. In fast Microsoft has
>such a format, it is called rtf. 

HTML being one such, SGML being a more-generic solution...

The techniques have already been developed; Micro$oft's backward in
not using them (or as Phil said, they like to shaft their customers).

Nick.
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From: nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew)
Subject: Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)
Date: 1998/10/13
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