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on January 03, 2003 04:49 PM
Even more important that tools like <A HREF="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice</a openoffice.org> are the use of open file formats. The market, if it were free to choose, has been asking for file <A HREF="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-966691.html?tag=fd_top">formats that everyone can read</a com.com>.
All 2002 Microsoft has issued carefully worded CYA statements and "profit warnings", and with good reason: their only profitable areas, MS-Windows and MS-Office, are dependent on monopoly rents. all other venture are losing catastrophic amounts of money. Even if MS-Office would support interoperable file formats, there are still the security problems and lack of support for other platforms. OpenOffice is already available so far on MS-Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, just to name a few. To add icing to the cake, businesses and agencies have full access to the code and can customize it as needed.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 03, 2003 04:49 PM<A HREF="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-966691.html?tag=fd_top">formats that everyone can read</a com.com>.
All 2002 Microsoft has issued carefully worded CYA statements and "profit warnings", and with good reason: their only profitable areas, MS-Windows and MS-Office, are dependent on monopoly rents. all other venture are losing catastrophic amounts of money. Even if MS-Office would support interoperable file formats, there are still the security problems and lack of support for other platforms. OpenOffice is already available so far on MS-Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, just to name a few. To add icing to the cake, businesses and agencies have full access to the code and can customize it as needed.
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