- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:45:31 +0200
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
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. Supporting it, in all its versions, is prohibitively expensive for anyone but Microsoft. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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