Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source document
Steven Roberts (strobert@ata-sd.com)
Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:22:04 -0800
Olivier Galibert wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 03:20:10PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > That would be a bad plan, you don't reverse a protocol until its firmly
> > embedded in the market. That makes it seriously sucky for the evil empire
> > to change the protocol
>
> One would say that the word file format is firmly embedded in the
> market.
>
> OG.
I wouldn't for one... native word95 docs are vastly different from
native word97 docs. (the big change was forcing all files to be
UNICODE)
(I once helped write a text parser for both to index files, and there
was lots of extra support to handle 97 docs)
Steve
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