[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:44:30 Jim Hartley wrote: > >> No, M$ does not want to support EVERY FILE FORMAT on the planet, >> only those they can control and change when it suits their >> purposes. OOXML was DELIBERATELY written with with ambiguities >> and vague descriptions so that if someone else DOES try to >> implement it M$ has lots of room to say, "Oh, no, you're wrong. >> What we MEANT was ..." >> >> All the rest of the file formats, the ones M$ can't control, they >> will try to undermine by foisting their own not-quite-standard >> versions on the public. Look at the mess they made of web pages >> with Internet Exploder and all its non-standard HTML. They tried >> to do it to Java, too, but they didn't get away with that one. >> >> Micro$oft's motto: "If we can't control it, then mess it up so >> nobody else can use it either. And bring out a new incompatible >> version every year!" >> >> Jim Hartley >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:03:41 Fred A. Miller wrote: >>> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Saturday 29 September 2007 18:48:50 S. A. Gnezdov wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Windows can't support every file format in >>>>>> the planet. >>>>>> >>>>> But that is exactly what Microsoft is trying to do. >>>>> >>>> NOT hardly. ONLY if they're put into a very tight bind do they >>>> even attempt it. >>>> >>>> Fred >>>> >>> And just how do you know they aren't. Just look at their track >>> record. >>> >>> If they don't want to do exactly what I said they would not be >>> trying to get OOXML ISO approved. What would be the point? We >>> already have an ISO approved OpenDocument Format. We do we need >>> two? >>> >>> Microsoft does not want to cooperate with other software >>> manufactures. Look at all the things we have two of and the >>> ones that Microsoft made only work on Microsoft but the others >>> work on all OSs. Does it look like Microsoft is trying to work >>> with the rest of the software manufactures? Why is Microsoft >>> the only one that is different? Everyone else uses the >>> established standards. Microsoft creates their own. >>> >>> So, what were you saying? I don't think any one heard you. >>> > > You are saying the same thing I am just using different words. > > In an earlier note, you said: "
Windows can't support every file format in > >>>> the planet. > >>> > >>> But that is exactly what Microsoft is trying to do." Here's you're saying MS is trying to support every file format in the world. Later you try to argue that what you're saying is what others are saying. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
