Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source document

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
6 Nov 1998 19:10:17 +0100

rhw@bigfoot.com (Riley Williams) writes:

>I have a simple solution to this - if somebody sends me an attachment
>that I can't extract, I send them a message saying so and advising
>them to send it in a format that I can extract. As far as I'm
>concerned, the onus is on the SENDER to ensure the recipient can use
>what they're attaching, not on the recipient to waste time doing other
>people's jobs for them...

So what? Then they will give us Outlook 98 for Linux. And they will
give it away for free. Soon you will start to use the propritary
protocols without noticing.

I would actually welcome the Office Suite or Outlook for Linux.

Kind regards
Henning

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