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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!not-for-mail From: Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 22 Apr 1996 12:14:46 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Frankfurt, Germany Lines: 16 Sender: lingnau@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Message-ID: <4lfm6m$d2c@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4l4crd$nus@miso.cs.uq.edu.au> <31769650.284D5C90@lambert.org> <3176f2d7.2987912@news.ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22053 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:782 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3432 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3286 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17946 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46736 In article <3176f2d7.2987912@news.ucs.ubc.ca>, Eric Gisin <ericg@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote: > There are absolutely no laws preventing one from reverse engineering the > Word document format (as long as you don't look at the EXEs), and > writing software that can read and write it. Over here in Europe, you're even allowed to look at the EXEs. It's still a lot of work. Besides, all that work will have been for the birds when the next version of Word comes out. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ......................... lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature can not be fooled. --- Richard P. Feynman