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Article #1148Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)
From: Phil Hunt
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00
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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.
The reason this isn't the default format for Word is so that MS can
shaft their customers.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) 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: 1998/10/11 Message-ID: <908142041snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 400365089 References: <907103252snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <OtvFDIAmbgE2Ewio@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <ys4stod03w.fsf_-_@tulyar.sdd.cegelecproj.co.uk> <6v19t4$ksh$1@gidora.zeta.org.au> <3614A281.3011@nym.sc.philips.com.nospam> <362110c7.23159181@news.concentric.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!vision25.demon.co.uk X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 908222713 mail2news:19994 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: here Reply-To: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss