Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:52:05 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <20010528105205.B43555@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3B11E61C.95D0BA0D@pitt.edu>; from pfg1%2B@pitt.edu on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:46:04AM -0400 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105252316300.294-100000@molly.telia.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <3B11E61C.95D0BA0D@pitt.edu>
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Pedro F. Giffuni said on May 28, 2001 at 01:46:04: > I think Jordan's article holds the key to this situation. Apple might > be the David that is required to take the desktop out from Microsoft's > field and hopefully also will take us to a better league. FWIW, I also > think Apple has a good chance now that MS is screwing up with their > .net strategy. All I really want is an open standard. I don't mind people sending me postscript or pdf generated from MS word; but if they're going to send me .doc files, I want the format to be well documented by Microsoft, so that I can convert it to whatever format I want. If everyone including Microsoft switched to some XML thing and agreed on some common standards for it, I really wouldn't care if 99% of the world continued to use Microsoft... In the absence of Microsoft taking the lead, it would be nice if the remaining word processor people, at least -- Applix, Corel, Staroffice/Sun, KDE, Abisource etc -- got together and hammered out something, and implemented it themselves. (Ditto for spreadsheets, presentations, etc, which I don't really deal with.) R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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