MS Format Flames Re: An attack on paypal --> secure UI for browsers

[Jamie Lawrence]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Bill Stewart wrote:

> If you want to give them something quasi-immutable,
> there's always PDF.  That lets you be rude _and_ proprietary :-)

Doesn't have to be proprietary. One of our pseudo-products is a PDF
generator built out of open source tools. Of course, most folks will
read it in Acrobat, but it works fine with xpdf, too.
 
> Microsoft does make free readers for Word and Powerpoint.
> They're only intended for running on Windows,
> but perhaps they work on WINE?

They do run under Wine. The occasional glitch, of course.

-j


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Jamie Lawrence                                        jal at jal.org
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