scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> I would far rather trust MS with that than a group of voluntary workers.  MS 
> has a brand name to protect and shareholders to please, they are not going 
> to do anything stupid.  On the other hand, one day the main developers may 
> decide they don't have enough time to continue with some open source 
> project, or the community might lose interest, etc.  From a business POV MS 
> is far safer bet for the long run.

  You don't understand. MS may one day decide that they want an annual
fee for every Word document a company has in their computers, and they
may get away with it. That's because the format is closed, proprietary
and owned by MS. An open source project just cannot do that. The open
source project does not own the format and thus cannot impose any fees
on it.

  As for stopping developement, have you ever heard of people having
problems importing old Word documents into newer versions of the program?
I have.

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                                                          - Warp

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