Jeff Maxson wrote:
>So for those of us who don't have OO or MSWord, what is the letter
>about? Why the exitement?
>
Nothing really. Try 'strings WordDoc.doc | less' which usually works
for me when I want to read bits of a word document. If the whole point
of this is to prove that someone else
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 07:56:03AM -0700, Michael Cardenas happened to mention:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 07:15:13PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Please download
> >
> > http://www.softwarechoice.org/download_files/Maccrisken.Letter.doc
> > Please be prepared to stand as witnes
ings on the file, at the end are a few names that are not
> meant to be visible in the file. They are names, probably of other participants
> in the creation of the document - two people and an organization. I need
> witnesses that those contents were on their site and were not something I
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 01:57 pm, csj wrote:
[snip]
>
> BTW why am I replying to this? Was the original post perhaps missent to
> Debian-User?
the op was bruce perens. i think it's okay that he came home to cover his
back. but, of all the things i could think of about which to challenge bru
Maccrisken.Letter.doc .
>
> Please be prepared to stand as witnesses when I expose some odd
> things in the
> file . If you run strings on the file, at the end are a few names
> that are not
> meant to be visible in the file. They are names, probably of other
> participants
ings on the file, at the end are a few names that are not
> meant to be visible in the file. They are names, probably of other participants
> in the creation of the document - two people and an organization. I need
> witnesses that those contents were on their site and were not something I
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:11:34 -0700
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ok I see the names and organization you speak of. So what does this
> > mean? Is this some sort of thing that MS word is putting in the
> > .doc that it isn't supposed to?
>
> Not so much that it isn't supposed t
t; the file . If you run strings on the file, at the end are a few names that
> are not meant to be visible in the file. They are names, probably of other
> participants in the creation of the document - two people and an
> organization. I need witnesses that those contents were on thei
on Tue, Sep 17, 2002, Hubert Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > "Craig" == Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Craig> Not so much that it isn't supposed to, but that people don't
> Craig> always realize it does. MS Word files have a number of data
> Craig> fields that are visible i
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Bruce> Milken is the convicted junk-bond king - made a billion while
> Bruce> bankrupting little people's pension funds with bonds that had
> Bruce> their price inflated through fraud.
>
> Isn't he partners with Larry Ellison in something, these days? I
> think I remembe
Bruce> Milkien is the convicted junk-bond king - made a billion while
Bruce> bankrupting little people's pension funds with bonds that had
Bruce> their price inflated through fraud.
Isn't he partners with Larry Ellison in something, these days? I
think I remember reading about it.
--
Ian Zim
> "Craig" == Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>> None of the stuff seems to be well reasoned either.
Craig> And this surprises you because...?
Just wondering if he had a point that I missed, or it wast just standard
propaganda nonsense.
(Actually, scratch the "well" from my
Hubert Chan wrote:
> BTW, could anyone figure out what the guy's point was? After I trimmed
> out all the fluff, all I could get was "Don't listen to Bruce because
> he's going to make you use Open Source."
Yeah, that sounds about right.
> None of the stuff seems to be well reasoned either.
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