On Monday, 20 בFebruary 2012 17:24:20 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats": > > Here are the pre-2007 formats: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381461.aspx > > > > And here are the current versions: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313118.aspx > > Amazing. These didn't exist previously!
MS "released" them few years ago as part of their OOXML plot. This context would explain the rest. > It appears that people may legally use these documents, and even copy > them. Oops, be carefull here. I just looked at one of them (Excel 97-2007) and the first sentence on the first page (after the cover page) says: "This specification is provided under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise." (link to MS OSP) If this doesn't ring a bell, have a look at what lawyers (not paid by MS) had to say about this: http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/osp-gpl.html "...Irrevocable but Only for Now..." "...The OSP Covers Specifications, Not Code..." > So, I guess there's no reason to say any more that these formats are > undocumented. Not really, unless "I'll tell you my secrets and then sue you" is some new documentation format ;-) -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 [email protected] http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
