[clug] RE: MakeTheMove Website Demo

Robin Shannon robin at shannon.id.au
Thu Sep 7 10:48:38 GMT 2006


On 07/09/06, Mike Carden <mike.carden at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip />

> > closed and dangerous proprietary formats
> A lovely phrase. In addition, I suggest mentioning something along the
> lines that every Word Document or Excel Spreadsheet you create makes
> MS a co-owner of your data.


Is this for real? As in owner copyright-wise? I have never heard this before
in all the critisism of Word that i've read. Surely governments and large
corporations wouldn't accept this. If it's true then it is something that we
should be putting out there as hard as we can.

paz,
-rjs.

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