Re: Boycott Microsoft

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Thu, 21 May 1998 15:11:53 GMT, ejohnson@netcom.com (Eric Johnson)
wrote:

|>Sigh.  Lotus made me sign an NDA for the file format to Lotus 1-2-3
|>v4.0 for Windows. 

and why is THAT?  if they were as serious about "competition" as they
CLAIM to be, then i would think that the NDA for something like a FILE
FORMAT would be un-necessary.

|> Which was incomplete mind you.  

tell me when i should be surprised.

|>Most of it was
|>based on OpenDoc's file format.  At the time, docs on that were hard
|>to come by.  Still are.  

"most" is the operating word here....

|>For Excel 5.x, went down to the bookstore,
|>bought the book with some sample programs.  Went down the aisle,
|>picked up some books on the OLE API.  I was good to go.

yeah, but what -I- wanna know is why the OLE API hasn't been showing
up on other platforms?  (at least -I- haven't seen anything about it.
if you know, PLEASE fill me in.)

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William Smith
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