Richard Reynolds wrote:
Richard Reynolds wrote:
one of the things they did was to set standards, standards they
aproved, and
If it were a standard we would be able to interoperate.
Granted M$ has not done it in a while, but they DID and they did so at a
time this industry had NONE. I dont understand why people forget this!
Maybe MY memory is not so good (I only got into computers in 1982), but
no they DIDN'T.
Which standard has MS created or invented, or even actively promoted?
There are lots of standards. You talk as if there is only One
Standard(tm) in the computing world.
What MS DID do it co-opt lots of perfectly working, well thought out,
inter-operable, and widely accepted and used standards in lots of areas.
OOXML is an example of a standard MS approved. The problem is, most of
the rest of the world has not approved. And one, by the way that no one,
including MS, can implement, because it is not even fully specified (and
probably never will be).
and why cant it?? I do all kinds of stuff with M$ files every day
switching between different computers and computer systems including
linux.
You only do that because either the file format existed before MS
bought/stole/co-opted/claimed credit for it/caved in and used it, or
because a lot of very talented people /outside/ Microsoft figured out
how it worked well enough to allow their own software to understand it.
Or they paid MS a pound of flesh to use it without being sued or
extorted out of existence.
the only parts that dont work, will never work in linux, not
because they cant, but because some developer thinks "its not a good
idea" to do that.
It doesn't work because it's a proprietary format, the details of which,
MS won't divulge, since it doesn't want interoperability. It wants
monopoly. It doesn't work because as soon as it's reverse-engineered
(oooh, I've said a naughty word!) MS changes it just a bit (Word .doc,
SMB/CIFS).
Give it up, the developer isnt supposed to be saying
you shouldnt, [s]he should be saying "ok but its less secure lets fix
it" and still make it work
I don't understand what you just said. Maybe my English it not so good.
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