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by Kroc on Sat 22nd Sep 2007 08:58 UTC
in reply to "RE[5]: bah"
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2005-11-10
Try owning a Mac. Experience will show you that OS X is better than Vista. iWork is just XML. It's parsable, it's not encumbered with weird binary blobs and patents. It's proprietary in the same way a printed book is proprietary. You can read it, and you could write it back out easily enough, you just don't have access to the same printer they did. OOXML on the other hand would be like trying to reverse engineer a book of barcodes.
Member since:
2005-11-10
Try owning a Mac. Experience will show you that OS X is better than Vista. iWork is just XML. It's parsable, it's not encumbered with weird binary blobs and patents. It's proprietary in the same way a printed book is proprietary. You can read it, and you could write it back out easily enough, you just don't have access to the same printer they did. OOXML on the other hand would be like trying to reverse engineer a book of barcodes.