Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking''
Carl Fink wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:35:50AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote:
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>>I am also sorry to announce, that I am one of those, who will be ``jumping
>>down peoples' throats'' in the case of not keeping to the net-etiquette.
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>Correct people, fine, but that's different from jumping down their throats.
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I think his use of quote marks indicates that he didn't perceive himself
as jumping down people's throats, but that others might make that claim
when he offers a netiquette-correction.
Of course, I could be wrong.
>OpenOffice has solved the .doc problem,
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Mostly.
>and Microsoft's reaction was to announce that the next version of MS Office
>will use the same zipped-XML format that OO uses.
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Again, I'm probably wrong, but my understanding is that MS is planning
on using XML, but since XML is not a file format _per se_, but rather a
"format that describes a format", MS's use of XML does not guarantee
third-party readability. I especially doubt that MS has chosen to use
the same format as that used by OOo. If you can offer a link, I'd be
interested in reading about this; it could be a very interesting thing.
--
Kent
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