Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:08:21 +0400 | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] | From | Andrey Panin <> |
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On 172, 06 21, 2003 at 11:53:29 +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > 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.
If you want Windows, you know where to get it.
People please stop this useless thread !
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