Ana Thema wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:29:51 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Microsoft, Office Open XML and A Lie
Why would any proprietary company make their product
for the benefit of other companies?
[snipping irrelevant examples]
Because with software, the software handles and stores data that
belong to the user, not the company that made the software. And
if the software only uses proprietary formats, the company making
the software is, in effect, controlling somebody's access to their
own data; which action is an obvious breach of law.
Please remember that when you are (as an example) writing a letter
in (say) AbiWord on a Windows-based computer, there are at least
three copyrights involved: The copyright to the OS; the copyright to
the AbiWord package; _AND_ the copyright to the letter you are
writing.
All the "examples" you mentioned, are different from this basic tenet
of software; which is why all your examples are irrelevant as comparative
examples.
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