On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> The only possible problem is the lack of a
> ubiquitous, non-proprietary, document format.
Take a look at KOffice (http://koffice.kde.org/) and AbiWord
(http://www.abisource.com/) - both are using a completely open XMLish file
format.
We have the formats, we just don't have their acceptance in the outside
world.
> The Internet was already making it possible to do things that just weren't
> practical before. There were less people with computers back then, but
> there were free, easy to use, graphical, browsers and mail clients back
> then that supported HTTP, HTML, POP3, SMTP, MIME, FTP, and other standards
> long before Microsoft decided to include these things in it's OS. People
> generally got a full set of tools from their ISP. The Internet was coming
> right along, well before Microsoft got involved.
True - it's a coincidence that telco monopolies in Europe were starting to
end (and connection prices are starting to get affordable) at about the
same time M$ started doing their Internet stuff, so M$ isn't responsible
for getting the net to Europe either.
LLaP
bero
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