26 Oct
2005
26 Oct
'05
9:42 p.m.
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:40 -0500, Travis H. wrote:
Many of the anonymity protocols require multiple participants, and thus are subject to what economists call "network externalities". The best example I can think of is Microsoft Office file formats. I don't buy MS Office because it's the best software at creating documents, but I have to buy it because the person in HR insists on making our timecards in Excel format.
1) You have told your HR person what a bad idea it is to introduce a dependency on a proprietary file format, right? 2) OpenOffice can read Excel spreadsheets, and I would assume it can save the changes back to them as well. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@speakeasy.net>