[gnu-pl] wwwgnudiff - raport nr 98

[Wojciech Kotwica]

--- prev/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html    Tue Jun 10 05:12:52 2003
+++ curr/./philosophy/no-word-attachments.html  Fri Jun 27 05:12:07 2003
@@ -85,8 +85,14 @@
 Word documents, but not all--the format is secret and has not been
 entirely decoded.  Even worse, Microsoft can change it at any time.
-In the future, they might use <A HREF="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">
-Palladium</A> or some other "treacherous computing" facility in a new
-version of Word format, to make it utterly hopeless for any software
-to access the files without Microsoft authorization.
+<p>
+
+In the future, they might use <A
+HREF="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html"> Palladium</A> or some other
+"treacherous computing" facility in a new version of Word format, to
+make it utterly hopeless for any software to access the files without
+Microsoft authorization.  There are also reports that Microsoft is
+planning to use patented extensions to XML as the basis for a future
+Word format; anyone who implements free software to read those files
+could be sued for patent infringement Microsoft.
 
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@@ -349,5 +355,5 @@
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-$Date: 2003/06/08 11:51:22 $ $Author: alensar9865 $
+$Date: 2003/06/26 23:41:47 $ $Author: rms $
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