Well said, Bjorn Simonsen -
> I've even heard people use this as an argument to allow sending Word
> formatted text to mailing lists (sic), arguing that a) everyone have Word
> (not true of course) b) thus its file format comprise a de facto standard
> (in part true, to long to get into here) and finally c) those who do not
> own a copy of Word can always go fetch the free viewers from MS (true but
> very annoying, since I would have to pay for the download and fire up the
> word viewer just to read my mail. Besides, they never made a Word viewer
> for DOS AFAIK)
To add: the same is even more pertinent re PDF.
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