Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source document

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:54:55 +0300 (MSK)

5-Nov-98 16:08 you 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.

Wrong sample. Word document format is documented in MSDN. Yes, it's proprietary
and such but since it's documented you could write converter without troubles...
(Ok, almost without troubles -- even M$ own Word95<->Word97 convertor works
horrible :-)

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