Re: ACM Ada Letters

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Amen, brother! Even if OpenOffice isn't perfect, I can feel reasonably 
certain that nobody is going to suddenly come out with a file format for 
the next generation product that is going to a) be incompatible with 
what I've already built or b) require I spend extra money to convert 
things or to be compatible with what other people are using or C) have 
some sort of Engulf & Devour scheme built in to make sure I'm locked in 
or others have to get locked in or all sorts of information has to be 
accessible to The Borg or some other invasion of my rights takes place.

It might not be a bad idea to make some Ada tools that work off of 
OpenOffice file formats. It would let Ada play in that arena and Ada 
would get the benefits of complimentary technology being available.

MDC

Wes Groleau wrote:
> 
> A _good_ reason might be "it comes from Microsoft."  :-)
> 


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