Linked by Sean Cohen on Tue 13th Apr 2004 06:52 UTC
Today I'm going to talk about why software - any software, all software - actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do).
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I must let you in on a little secret. Some standards created by large companies, such as Adobe's PostScript (the predecessor to PDF), are given to the community for free, in the true sense of the word. No strings attached. We have been given complete instructions on how to use, create, save, print and mince PostScript documents - all without having to pay any royalties.
That's why Apple switched from DisplayPS (postscript) in the NeXT operating system, to the PDF based Quartz, because of high licensing fees for postscript from Adobe.. I seriously hope you are not suggesting to use postscript to mail any documents you have, you could as well send a word document with automatic executing macros in it.
But there are now (as we speak) thousands upon thousands of programs that read and write (perfectly) OpenOffice.org documents
Thousands? Name 3! I hate OpenOffice.org, way too bloated, so I would like a lightweight word processor that runs natively on Mac OS X, and reads those OpenOffice.org documents perfectly.