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From"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <>
SubjectRe: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]
DateSat, 21 Jun 2003 11:53:29 +0000 (UTC)
Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> writes:

>Do you really think it was _necessary_ to change the document format in just
>about any W*rd version available? Do you? Not really.
>Its all about creating problems for competitors and none about being kind to
>the own customer.

>You don't find this kind of behaviour in GPL software.

I'd consider "If it does not work with the new version of libfoo,
please recompile" or "you need a newer blafoo tool to use this" or
"your compiler isn't usable for application xxx" much worse. 

And _this_ is common for many open source projects.

Reality Check: 99,9% of all computer users don't know what a compiler
is but can open Word 6.x documents in WordXP.

	Regards
		Henning

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