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In article <87emsns1aw.fsf@ivm.de>,
Klaus Schilling  <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> wrote:

>> Applixware and StarOffice, in their new incarnations, will open Office
>> 97 files.
>
>Applixwarez and $tarorifice are proprietary crap. There's no place for them on
> GNU/Linux. Only traitors and backstabbers like A.C. encourage their usage.

But to avoid their use, you need a free alternative that will interoperate
with everyone else's files.  Let us know when you have finished writing it
and are ready to give it away.

>> Where a standard exists, if you want to compete you have to adapt to it.
>> 
>No, those evil standards need to be boycotted and ignored.

Won't work - you have to beat them at their own game.

>Only free competing packeges can be better products, proprietary ones are as
>much dirt and junk as MS office. 

Words are cheap - please demonstrate these better products.

>> >It doesn't matter how they gained their monopoly position.  It could be
>> >through better marketing, or through anticompetitive practices, or even
>> >through technical superiority.
>> >
>They gained it soley by making deals with $atan.

And your point is???

   Les Mikesell
    les@mcs.com