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Subject:Re: Some Commonsense re: MS/Corel Alliance From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:Mike Adams <Mike_Adams -at- summithq -dot- com> Date:Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:42:36 -0400
Mike Adams wrote:
>
> Hehhe... yeah, yeah.... See how great it is once they start changing the
> file formats and you can't work with old stuff anymore (re RTF, Visio 2000,
> etc.).
>
Exactly where have you heard that is going to happen. All indicators
(history, tradition, commitment to maintain that tradition from
engineering, not marketing,) are contrary to your snicker. Please don't
post FUD here unless you can prove it.
--
Peter
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved
promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned,
by either suicide, a bag of gold,
or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.
Ernest Bramah (Kai Lung stories)
