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From: warwick@cs.uq.edu.au (Warwick Allison)
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 18 Apr 1996 03:27:41 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Queensland
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byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>Word6
>Word6
>Word6
>Word6
>Word6
>Word6
>Word6
Too short sighted. Did Netscape go and write a Word6 compatible WWW
browser? No. Applications *don't* live forever (Word6 cannot load Word3
documents, for example).
We *MUST* base our applications on open standards (eg. HTML, not Word6),
or we will be forever dragging behind the proprietor of the standard.
That is fundamental.
A free WWW Netscapegold-like product (or simply NetScape Gold - it's the
editor one, right?) could subvert the Word6 market. If someone sends you
a Word6 file, tell them you want it in HTML instead (they can get a free
Word6 modulethingy for writing out in HTML, I understand).
--
Warwick
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