On 31 Dec 2001 20:05:55 -0500, Michael Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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.
Nope, they are reverse-engineered. That's why it has taken so long for the filters to reach their present level of quality (which is very good). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The linux kernel has had an interesting release pattern: usually the .0 release was actually fairly good (there's almost always something stupid, but on the whole not really horrible). And every single time so far, .1 has been worse. It usually takes until something like .5 until it has caught up and surpassed the stability of .0 again." -- Linus Torvalds
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