Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

OK, OK.

RTF is Microsoft's
SQL is IBM's
JavaScript is Netscape's (Jscript is Microsoft's knockoff, beware)
HTML, CSS and their children are from W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium)
XML?
PostScript is Apple's (really a FORTH derivative, huh?)
PDF is Adobe's.

Word, XSL, etc. are from Microsoft.
and ... Open Document Formats are from Sun

Do not, I mean DO NOT ever use such formats because larger corporations are 
involved in them, created them, sometimes violate their own standards. Make 
everything completely original and thus maintain complete personal control. 
No one else will want to read the thing anyway :-)