From: mike 

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:29:36 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>"Ad"  wrote in message
>news:4663d416$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
>>> I think it's a good thing they changed the format, just ten years
>>> overdue. It'll take a few years for others to catch up, but the new
>>> format is really very good - it's all XML, inside a ZIP file,
so it'll be
>>> super easy for any other software to read the files. Very cool for data
>>> exchanging, searching, indexing, you name it.
>>>
>>>
>> Super easy assuming MS don't come after your nether regions with a red
>> hot poker wrt their "IP".
>
>WTF would them wankers have to do with the contents of my docs? The whole
>reason why MS changed the format was the openoffice/opensource people crying
>for an open document format

Really, that was the whole reason?

To me, the reason is more of a forced upgrade, since the older versions of
MS Office cannot read the new format, and will need to be upgraded.


>, and now you wouldn't use it 'cause it's from
>MS? Sheesh...

I suspect the reluctance might be due to Microsoft's IP saber-rattling of
late.  Would *you* want to use the IP of a company that has been
threatening lawsuits for such things?

 /m

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