[50862] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microslosh vision of the future
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Howe)
Mon Aug 12 12:34:29 2002
From: "David Howe" <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
To: "Email List: nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:30:45 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
at Monday, August 12, 2002 2:41 PM, William Warren
<hescominsoon@adelphia.net> was seen to say:
> StarOffice to the rescue.
Requires interoperability to be possible - if M$oft protects their file
formats legally (via the DMCA) or technically (via Palladium only
allowing "trusted" MS apps to access the documents) then there is little
you can do and stay inside the quite draconian laws the americans seem
to want for this sort of thing (and which to our shame the europeans
seem to be trying to match)