>I think Civileme's point was that if/when the UCITA law passes in >Washington, USA, then Microsoft (headquartered in Washington) will be >able to make a minor change to their proprietary .doc/.xls/whatever >file formats, and it will be illegal for Sun or anyone else to >reverse-engineer that file format to create a new filter for their >competing office suite.
Sun licenses the file formats from MS, don't they? They didn't reverse-engineer them, I thought. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg> Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades.
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