Re: [Usability] Chabada's Suggestions

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Simon Francis wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:29:55 -0400
> From: Simon Francis <thejello gmail com>
> To: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>
> Cc: Gnome usability <usability gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Chabada's Suggestions
>
> But OpenOffice and AbiWord open my Word documents fine which have patents.

Do they?  The newer XML formats might have some dodgy patents but I don't
think the older Microsoft Word .doc had any patents and Rich Text Format
was intended for sharing documents with other word processors (RTF is what
Abiword actually uses).

-- 
Alan