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I used it on my home machine for a couple of years. They have automatic bulk builds of all of the ports, the system...
Microsoft Open XML formats not really ÒOpen".
"The fact that Microsoft is trying to lock out GPL developers is hardly surprising as they are doing something very similar in the EU as part of their punishment for being found guilty of anti-compebreastive practises in the European Union. They were told that they must make their server protocols available to compebreastors so as to improve interoperability but have again done so in a manner that locks out their biggest compebreastor, GPL licensed software.
The only truly open document standard at this time appears to be the OASIS XML OpenDocument format used by StarOffice-OpenOffice. This file format is completely open and can be adopted by anybody with a desire to do so, including Microsoft. But donÕt expect them to support it any time soon as to do so would lessen the impact of their own less open format and make it easier for people to swap to compebreastive Office suites and Microsoft would apparently prefer not to compete on price and features if they donÕt have to. It should be noted that MicrosoftÕs XML based file format is NOT currently approved by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)."
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:31:32 +0200, UNIX admin Why? It addresses my needs very well. Just because it doesn't suit yours does *not* make...
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