scott wrote:
> Well there's a surpise, you invent a new standard to define Word 
> documents in an open way, then you complain that to read them completely 
> you need to re-implement Word!

And if MS didn't do this, then people would complain when they use the 
advanced features of Word that they paid for because they need, and then 
they can't open the file again after they saved it.

> And I guess the reasons that governments want it is so that if MS 
> suddenly decides to do something stupid (very unlikely) then other 
> programs will be available to easily get the data.

It'll also be helpful to avoid the whole "what secret stuff is MS 
leaking into my documents" kind of MS-added-an-NSA-cryptokey complaint.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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