On Apr 8, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:The real culprit here is Microsoft, for not bothering to create a registry for file types to be associated with specific applications.
Yeah! Only operating systems from Microsoft use file extensions! They shoulda...
Uh. Wait. You sure about this, Richard?
I didn't say Microsoft was alone in the use of file extensions. I merely noted that they didn't bother to make a registry for them.
Unless the folks at FILExt and the rest are as wrong as me, last I heard Microsoft still doesn't maintain anything like Apple's application signature registry.
Of course, Linux doesn't either. But it seems a bit early yet to have high expectations of usability in the Linux community. ;)
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