John Hebert wrote:
>Makes perfect business sense to Microsoft: >"Embrace, extend, extinguish." > >Will the locked down XML format for M$-Office appear >in an upgrade or a new version? > > My bet is that: M$ is learning from SCO and will encourage OOo, staroffice, and anyone who wants incorperate said invention into thier products untill...one day when they decide that the more profitable path will be turning on the litigation engine and pointing it at anyone useing thier "invention". >On the other hand, will the bad press that results for >Microsoft cause more acceptance of OpenOffice? > >--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Kind of defeats the whole idea behind moving to >>XML.. >> >> > > >===== >John Hebert >'cat /dev/random | perl' > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! >http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
