On Thursday 09 June 2005 3:39 pm, Ivo Vegter wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Thursday 09 June 2005 10:01 am, Robin Laing wrote: > >>Ivo Vegter wrote: > >>>With any luck, it will interoperate better with OOo. Even if it does > >>>embrace and break^Wextend the standard, you can't hide much in XML. > >> > >>This has been recently discussed. MS has actually avoided supporting > >>OASIS in various documents posted in recent days to the list. > > > > They WON'T totally nor whole heartedly support any software nor "common" > > format that is taking business away from them - PERIOD! > > All I'm saying is that with XML, they'll have to break the format in > plain text. So others can see what they break. > > How well they support it, or what they do with the schema becomes > irrelevant if other developers have full access to it.
Yes, ASSUMING others have "full access." I've been around this industry since before MickySoft - I've earned the right to be paranoid when it comes to the most immoral company in the industry. Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
