Re: RTF - proprietary or open?
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Mike McCarty wrote:
> Andrew J. Barr wrote:
>> Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>> SQL is also theirs...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Whatever gave you that idea? IBM created SQL before Microsoft
>>>> existed! It has been an ISO standard since 1987.
>>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL>
>>>
>>> You need to learn some history. MicroSoft predates 1987 by quite
>>> a bit.
>>
>>
>> Um, if memory serves me, IBM created SQL in the '60s.
>
> But that wasn't his point. I don't know when SQL was created,
> and wasn't making that claim. However, his claim seemed to
> be that MicroSoft doesn't predate 1987, which is absurd.
No. He said that IBM created SQL before MS existed and that it became an
ISO standard in 1987 (after the foundation of MS and after SQL was
created, obviously).
Johannes
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