Warp wrote:

> it's not as "open" as it claims to be. This is because it contains
> things like "this is rendered like Word 95 renders it", without any more
> instructions nor specifications which would explain how "Word 95 renders it".
> Only Microsoft itself knows exactly the algorithm inside Word 95 which
> renders that item, and MS is not going to make it open.

Debatably, even M$ doesn't really know how the old code they kludged 
together actually works. But they just cut and paste it into each new 
version of Word to ensure backwards compatibility...

>   Anyways, and to my point finally, what I don't really understand is why
> Microsoft is doing this.

Certain people have declared "from now on, we will only use open 
document formats". So M$ responded by creating an "open" document 
format, to encourage these people to keep using it. (Oh yeah, it's not 
actually "open" at all. But it does *say* "open" on it... that's good 
enough, right?)

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