[ale] RTF

[Jeff Lightner]

What crap!

 

MS Word took off for one reason - They gave it away along with Excel and
Access because the people PAYING for software new Word sucked compared
to WordPerfect and Excel sucked compared to Lotus 123.   Not only did
they give it away - they forced PC manufacturers to bundle in on new PCs
with the threat of NOT being allowed to include DOS/Windows.   Once MS
Office became the defacto standard they quit giving it away. 

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:19 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] RTF

 

 

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:34 PM, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:

Open Office will deal with rtf.

A lot of web browsers will accept it too.

Gmail uses it for their "fancy" formatted
email option.

It was just a Mafia$oft attempt to undermine
HTML formatting with their own published
sub-standard.


-GONG- !!

RTF was Microsofts answer to WordPerfect's  document format being
closed. They wanted to get a leg up in the office suite market and
couldn't get moving (as Word was an "also ran" at that time and Word
Perfect was 95:1 market share).

RTF succeeded wildly and Microsoft gained much traction in thatmarket.
So they had to slowly get rid of RTF (which I think got the "standard"
stamp of approval at one point) as other word processing competitors
began to use it. So now we have the 4 bazillion versions of .doc, .docx
mess and Word barely can export to RTF any more.

Yay! ASCII !

	
	
	peace
	aaron

	
	
	On 2008, Nov, 25, , at 10:15 PM, Sean wrote:
	
	> I'm running FC7 with  all the normal aps.  Just got a file in
	> rtf format (Rich Text Format?).  OO and Scribus can't deal
with
	> it.  Suggestions would be helpful.
	>
	> Sean
	>
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