Path: utzoo!attcan!cmtl01!matrox!uvm-gen!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pasteur!agate!labrea!rutgers!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!swatsun!jackiw From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Word format Message-ID: <2354@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> Date: 26 Jan 89 02:04:38 GMT References: <347@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: jackiw@ilium.UUCP (Nick Jackiw) Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA Lines: 46 In article <347@microsoft.UUCP> stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) writes: [Opinion that it's damned unlikely anyone but Big Marketeers can ever hope to get their hands on any of Microsoft's file formats deleted.] > Hmm, well all I can say is good luck to them. I view it like this > (personal view only here).. it would be like Apple saying to a clone > company.. "Oh, you want to manufacture a Macintosh clone!.. Oh sure, let > me just dig out the source to the ROMs for you, save you some development > time" sheesh! :-) :-). > > That's the way the corporate world works mate. ^^^^^^^^^ according to Microsoft! Glad to have official confirmation that Microsoft isn't out to satisfy their customers, only to possess their souls. Not a flame on you, Stu, only your company and others like it. Just think how much nice cash those fools who invented ASCII could have made for themselves if only they'd thought to patent it! -Nick (And if you want to flame me about ASCII being designed as a cross-corporate standard, and not the product of a specific corp. or architecture, replace ASCII with EBCDIC (the old IBM equivalent) and re-read. IBM make catch a lot of flack in this group, but at least at times they seem to share many people's desires to advance the cause of computers in society and life, rather than just to suck dollars from them.) *** FLAME ON **** Owning Knowledge = Oligarchy = Fascism or Feudalism FREE KNOWLEDGE = FREE MINDS = FREE WORLD! Rah rah sis boom bah *** FLAME OFF *** -- +-------------------+-jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu / !rutgers!bpa!swatsun!jackiw-+ | nicholas jackiw | jackiw%campus.swarthmore.edu@swarthmr.bitnet | +-------------------+-VGP/MathDept/Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081--+ L.S./M. F. T. Jesus Saves Every 10 Minutes