Richard Reynolds wrote:
Granted M$ has not done it in a while, but they DID and they did so at a
time this industry had NONE. I dont understand why people forget this!
Indeed the industry had none. Despite Microsoft's best efforts to lobby
us all to promote the use of one standard which we could all read and
write our documents on no matter what platform we used. Er...wait...
and why cant it?? I do all kinds of stuff with M$ files every day switching
between different computers and computer systems including linux. the only
parts that dont work, will never work in linux, not because they cant, but
because some developer thinks "its not a good idea" to do that. Give it up,
I've never known a developer to say this. I've known a lot to say "We've
been working to reverse-engineer the proprietary and non-standard
Microsoft file formats so that we can be compatible for years but it is
so convoluted and changes with every new version of Office that we can't
keep up!"
If the computer HAS to stay on, then NO! but lets face it this isnt
exclusive to windows!
Er....yeah. It pretty much is. Linux/Unix patches rarely require reboots.
going to help. postscript isnt without a ton of faults, and unless I am
missing something isnt postscript copywriten to adobe??? whats stoping them
from pulling a compuserve when they wanted to collect royalaties out of
every .gif user.
It is licensed with every printer that supports it. Ghostscript etc are
free unencumbered implementations of postscript. So now, they can't pull
a compuserv.
and lately I just look at what the whole mess and wonder .... and get pissed
off at the anti M$ for bashing beyond what M$ deserves.
They don't get anywhere near the bashing they deserve. Since when do we
coddle scofflaws? They are convicted monopolists and owe
$1,300,000,000.00 to the EU.
From http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/27/business/msft.php :
"Microsoft was the first company in 50 years of EU competition policy
that the commission has had to fine for failure to comply with an
antitrust decision," Kroes said in a statement. "I hope that today's
decision closes a dark chapter in Microsoft's record of noncompliance
with the commission's March 2004 decision."
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