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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 -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire --- Quote of the week: "Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." --- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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