Re: Microslosh vision of the future

[Brad Knowles <brad.knowles () skynet be>]

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.

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles () skynet be>

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