On Monday, 20 בFebruary 2012 22:30:54 Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012, Oron Peled wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats": > > > Undocumented? Which file format is that? All the .doc and .docx > > > formats are documented, even the older binary formats. > > > > Care to point us where it is? > > > > PS: if this "documentation" is encapsulated in something that > > can only be read after signing some NDA and/or other legal > > MS stuff -- don't bother, such documentation is equivalent > > to internal MS documentation -- I.e: it is not usefull to > > anyone else. > > Dotan gave the links earlier today: > > > 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 > > Amazingly, not only do you not have to sign any NDA, the documents (at > least those I looked at) say that your are free to copy and > redistiribute them. Perhaps even more amazingly, they are in PDF format,
I think you'll be less thrilled after reading my response to his mail. In short: * The documents are free, but the contained information is not. * Their appearance (e.g: PDF, etc.) is not surprising if you know they were released during the corrupted OOXML campaign. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 [email protected] http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Q: How many NSA agents does it take to replace a lightbulb? A: dSva7DrYiY24yeTItKyyogFXD5gRuoRqPNQ9v6WCLLywZPINlu! _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
