Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Oron Peled]

On Monday, 20 בFebruary 2012 22:30:54 Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012, Oron Peled wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to 
shift to non-propriety documents formats":
> > > Undocumented? Which file format is that? All the .doc and .docx
> > > formats are documented, even the older binary formats.
> > 
> > Care to point us where it is?
> > 
> > PS: if this "documentation" is encapsulated in something that
> >     can only be read after signing some NDA and/or other legal
> >     MS stuff -- don't bother, such documentation is equivalent
> >     to internal MS documentation -- I.e: it is not usefull to
> >     anyone else.
> 
> Dotan gave the links earlier today:
> 
> 	> Here are the pre-2007 formats:
> 	> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381461.aspx
> 	> 
> 	> And here are the current versions:
> 	> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313118.aspx
> 
> Amazingly, not only do you not have to sign any NDA, the documents (at
> least those I looked at) say that your are free to copy and
> redistiribute them. Perhaps even more amazingly, they are in PDF format,

I think you'll be less thrilled after reading my response to his mail.
In short:
 * The documents are free, but the contained information is not.
 * Their appearance (e.g: PDF, etc.) is not surprising if you know
   they were released during the corrupted OOXML campaign.

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