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Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun?
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Viva RDF!
@Bob:
$0 against any amount of currency is 0/N, which is a valid fraction for any proprietary, non-gratis package. There's no SIGFPE in that calculation.
$0 against any amount of currency is 0/N, which is a valid fraction for any proprietary, non-gratis package. There's no SIGFPE in that calculation.
Forgive me, I was using an original Pentium for the math function.
Lol, you lads is on a roll today :)
My kingdom for a math coprocessor!
Hey, you know what's funny:
I was reading the 'internet tidal wave' recently, some memo by Bill Gates blaming the lack of documents in 'MS formats' on the web. It was obvious to Bill Gates 15 years ago that people might not need Microsoft in the future, and to prevent such the web -should be full of it.
XML came, than OOXML came, then it was standardized, and it was made mandatory in new 'trialware' to lock people into OOXML on new computers.
Nonetheless, I never had to open a 'docx' document as of yet. ODF formats not much either, from time to time though.
So I think - though I'm not statistical relevant - that MS might have failed to push OOXML. Or government settled on PDF BTW it seems.
I was reading the 'internet tidal wave' recently, some memo by Bill Gates blaming the lack of documents in 'MS formats' on the web. It was obvious to Bill Gates 15 years ago that people might not need Microsoft in the future, and to prevent such the web -should be full of it.
XML came, than OOXML came, then it was standardized, and it was made mandatory in new 'trialware' to lock people into OOXML on new computers.
Nonetheless, I never had to open a 'docx' document as of yet. ODF formats not much either, from time to time though.
So I think - though I'm not statistical relevant - that MS might have failed to push OOXML. Or government settled on PDF BTW it seems.
> Nonetheless, I never had to open a 'docx' document as of yet. ODF formats not much either, from time to time though.
They were forms from other people, sent to me by email. Not "off the web", technically speaking.
They were forms from other people, sent to me by email. Not "off the web", technically speaking.
@Steven: RDF is almost as big a mess as OOXML is. But the spec is only a few hundred pages of mess instead of over 6000.
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At every turn, I advocate OpenOffice, and several people have discovered it works just fine at a fraction of the cost (as if division by zero is just fine).
Now, as to what Oracle is going to do...