Re: Boycott Microsoft

[ejohnson@netcom.com (Eric Johnson)]

wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith) writes:

>besides all this, PunySquishy's habit of not making file formats
>public knowledge until "after the fact" (if at all) means that other
>comanies have a hard time writing applications capable of dealing with
>documents generated by M$ Office apps.

Sigh.  Lotus made me sign an NDA for the file format to Lotus 1-2-3
v4.0 for Windows.  Which was incomplete mind you.  Most of it was
based on OpenDoc's file format.  At the time, docs on that were hard
to come by.  Still are.  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.

-Eric