Hey! It's not just downsides... there ARE upsides to that, as recently revealed in the European Commission, which produced a document recommending the use of software patents. This document *word doc* had Sumarry, Author, etc... the Author... was... a proeminent employee of Business Software Alliance, which is pushing for software patentes on Europe *cringe*.
Well, as long as that is not included in the documents by default, I tend to agree with Alan. Hugs, rms On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 15:05, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > > > Is the default for 'Company' taken from the Windows registry? If > > yes, many PC manufacturers put *their* company name there, which > > will lead to many documents with 'Compaq' and 'Dell' as the > > 'DC.Publisher', which is obviously wrong. > > > > > After all, something's better than nothing, right? > > > > Well, not if that 'something' is incorrect ... :/ > > And not if something uneccesarily gives away my privacy. > > I really hate the way MS office asks me for my username and intials when i > turn it on and then stamps all the documents with my identity. > I also feel no need to give free adversting to my hardware manufacturer. > > Who else remembers the story about Microsofts press releases being marked > with metadata identifying them as created with Mac? :) > > sincerely > Alan -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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