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Re: Microslosh vision of the future
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles () skynet be>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 22:47:31 +0200
At 9:41 AM -0400 2002/08/12, William Warren wrote:
StarOffice to the rescue.
Only until they change the file format again. Microsoft can afford to change the file format on an even daily basis, and come out with patches for the previous patches, and call them all "security patches" so that everyone is either forced to apply them or dump Microsoft altogether.
Open source projects can't possibly afford to keep up, if Microsoft decides to go down this road.
-- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles () skynet be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
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- Re: Microslosh vision of the future, (continued)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Vadim Antonov (Aug 11)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future David Schwartz (Aug 11)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future blitz (Aug 11)
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- Re: Microslosh vision of the future blitz (Aug 11)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Brad Knowles (Aug 12)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future gg (Aug 12)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Eric A. Hall (Aug 13)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Vadim Antonov (Aug 11)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future David Howe (Aug 12)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future William Warren (Aug 12)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future David Howe (Aug 12)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Brad Knowles (Aug 12)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Karsten W. Rohrbach (Aug 12)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Curtis Maurand (Aug 14)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Karsten W. Rohrbach (Aug 14)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future blitz (Aug 12)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Jim Segrave (Aug 12)
- Re: Microslosh vision of the future Paul Vixie (Aug 12)