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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!info.curtin.edu.au!newsmaster From: Dimitri Maziuk <emaziuk@curtin.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:04:31 -0700 Organization: Curtin University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <317C8F0F.307E@curtin.edu.au> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <31769650.284D5C90@lambert.org> <3176f2d7.2987912@news.ucs.ubc.ca> <4lfm6m$d2c@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <4lftn3$olb@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra30.curtin.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22131 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:797 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3453 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3306 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17999 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46848 Byron A Jeff wrote: > > In article <4lfm6m$d2c@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>, > Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:... snip ... > >Besides, all that work will have been for the birds when > >the next version of Word comes out.... snip ... > We can care less about the new version of Word for the simple reason that > there are no documents written in the new format. There are billions of > documents in the current format. Wrong. Everybody upgrades to new version within the next two month, thanks to Microsoft's highly effective advertising campaign, and billions of documents get converted into new format by 25.07.96. (Will our Word 6 converter be out of BETA by then?) And sure, they've swapped a couple of bytes in file header just so that other software can't read the file (aforementioned converter included) and you have to go sign an NDA to get new specs and there's a queue of WordPerfect and other people there so by the time everyone has the specs MS'll have a new version of Word. JMP Wrong. It's one of the things you do to stay on Top(tm). Cheers, Dimitri