Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
And, as far as Andrew's statement being "absurd", OOo *DOES* open MSO
stuff- and so do hundreds of other non-MS programs. If every piece of
MSO Software on earth disappeared, through some sort of mega-virus, or
"miracle", the *DATA* of the files said in their ultra-secret, evil,
litttle propriatary software will be completely intact.
Today, it does. There's nothing saying tomorrow's MSO won't save in
formats designed to be read by other programs.
What's worse, we *know* that MS is moving to a new file format with
patent restrictions that explicitly prevent OOo or any GPL-compatible
software from implementing it.
The fact we can read a MSO doucment anywhere else is fortunate,
And not thanks to anything Microsoft did, but inspite their efforts to
lock competitors out.
and I
would go as far as to say Microsoft considers this to be a problem they
are in the process of "fixing" (read: breaking utterly for anyone but
users of their products).
Oh, we know they are. They are now using the courts and the legal system
to prevent their main competitors from reading their formats.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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