On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:50:32 -0500, DFS wrote:
> Mark Kent wrote:
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>> So we, the taxpayer, have to *pay* to have *our* data locked into a
>> proprietary format which will never be readable on standard platforms,
>
> huh? http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/HA010449811033.aspx
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>> supplied by a company which cannot even manage to add a proper ODF
>> format to its office suite, and pushed by a guy, Adam Farquhar, who
>> *we* pay for, who chairs an OOXML "standards" committee.
>>
>> This is just beyond anything you could imagine. Can we get this guy
>> moved to a more suitable job - in Microsoft, say?
>
> Better that than having him sit on his ass twiddling with
> hobby-crap-ware at taxpayer expense.
Yeah, now he can work on hobby-crap-ware like Word at MS.
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