On 23/07/07, DanTrevino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/23/07, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Writing documents and university papers can't get much better than
> > MS-Office, OpenOffice, TeX and DocBook. Each of them caters rather
> > well to their respective markets (except some interoperability issues,
> > which are really rather minor if you put the bizness bullshit aside.)
>
> That little interoperability thing IS important.  Open standards are
> critical to a true free exchange of ideas.

Of course it is - but there is no real engineering problem; it's
*business bullshit*.

And of course the public perception of "openness" - the public doesn't
care how open the specs are, they just want their documents to work,
NOW and unfortunately Microsoft uses it very well.

But i was trying to talk about a much larger scale...

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