RE: Spinoff: Using Linux for work? was RE: Why Tech-Writers Should Know About Open Source Technologies

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> who are playing catch-up in some areas. Why do you think MS Word,
> for example, now has a floating window for styles and formatting?
> Because it got the idea from OpenOffice.org.

I woudn't say that Word was playing catchup because of how they
weren't the first to employ a floating style window. To take that
example to it's logical conclusion, both OOS and Word got that from
Adobe products, who I'm sure got it from someone else.


John Posada
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