- From: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:07:22 -0700
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Håkon Wium Lie [mailto:howcome@opera.com] wrote: >Also sprach Chris Wilson: > > > >Exactly this has already > > >happened with Office document formats, it's a repeating pattern. > > > > Sorry, I'm not registering how you're using Office formats as an > > example. Office formats are now thoroughly documented, with an open > > standard describing them. > >Office formats are far from being documented -- e.g., there is no >publically available specification for the "doc"-formats. Ah, you meant to say "every past Office document format is not openly spec'ed." Okay. >Supporting >it, in all its versions, is prohibitively expensive for anyone but >Microsoft. Supporting all Office formats from all past versions is incredibly expensive, period. Microsoft just already paid some of that cost. -Chris
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