Re: M$ Word -- Bad (was:Re: [Fsfe-uk] OFT visit)

[Chris Croughton]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:

> If people cannot understand why they should use RTF instead of word we 
> should really tell them that they  need some basic education without 
> being shy about it.
> I did not know of RTF for a very long time until a free software 
> advocate told me about it.

I thought RTF was a proprietary format.  Admittedly it's one which MS
make available, but it's also under their control to change the spec.
any time they want (and they do, there are some constructs they have
used which weren't in the spec. available at the time).

Chris C