Kfir Lavi wrote: > as long as just one crazy guy continues to maintain the groff program. > > > Well, groff is a very good example. 30 years, wow. The thing is that > groff is a small program, that can be maintained by one person. Word or > openoffice in the other hand need a lot of people, but a lot of > industries counting on word documents. >
Format and App are different beasts. While OpenOffice needs lots of man power, the spec for ODF is relatively simple. Thus extracting data from it (and/or converting to other formats) is quite "cheap" (manpower wise). Cheers -- Meir Kriheli ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
