On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 14:19, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > Say you convert all those proprietary formats over to Linux, well then.... > why should anyone use Linux? They already work on Windows. Perhaps because people want to keep using Linux? Whatever your views are on open protocols and formats the reality is, there's plenty of proprietary formats that are in common usage. It isn't always practical to simply ignore them. I don't want to use Windows but I still NEED a program capable of viewing word documents through no choice of my own. -- Ian Chapman - UNIX Systems Administrator School of Computing - University of Teesside
