So M$ did what Linux does now? They gave it away for free? Hmm.....<br><br>I'm not 100% that that's correct. Yes, early Word was bundled with early windows and distributed by hardware sellers. But RTF was created to be a common document interchange language so Word could interact (i.e. - have a chance against WordPerfect) with other document platforms. WordPerfect was the defacto word processing tool. <br>
<br>And yes, hardware makers were steamrolled into including the new M$ apps. But they didn't just get bowled over. They went along willingly because their machine came with foo and bar and... and thus was easier to sell even though it cost a tad more. <br>
<br>I still giggle that Redmond creates a "standard" that gets adopted because it's a good idea and fairly well implemented and then abandons their own standard. Of course, they argue that .doc is also a "standard" but a rigged election is not always a good thing. :-)<br>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">What crap!</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">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
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 26, 2008
8:19 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] RTF</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:34 PM, aaron <<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org" target="_blank">aaron@pd.org</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Open Office will deal with rtf.<br>
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A lot of web browsers will accept it too.<br>
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Gmail uses it for their "fancy" formatted<br>
email option.<br>
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It was just a Mafia$oft attempt to undermine<br>
HTML formatting with their own published<br>
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-GONG- !!<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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Yay! ASCII !</span></font></p>
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On 2008, Nov, 25, , at 10:15 PM, Sean wrote:<br>
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> I'm running FC7 with all the normal aps. Just got a file in<br>
> rtf format (Rich Text Format?). OO and Scribus can't deal with<br>
> it. Suggestions would be helpful.<br>
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> Sean<br>
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