XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   -hh wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On 1/27/26 18:00, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:47:20 -0500, -hh wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> ...has FOSS done a better job of not orphaning MS's older file   
   >>> formats that MS themselves have now abandoned?   
   >>   
   >> That’s a question you can easily answer for yourself. How much time   
   >> does it take to download and install an open-source office suite, and   
   >> seeing what it does with your old documents?   
   >   
   > More time than what a Linux advocate would take, for they already have   
   > the software installed, so just needs a test file...like this one:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   > Their strong interest to show the superiority of FOSS means that they   
   > should be biting at the bit for just such a golden opportunity.   
      
   Huh? It's a golden opportunity to show the difficulty of following   
   a Microsoft  specification.   
      
   And isn't PPT a hoary old format?  PPTX came to be around 2007.   
      
   You actually kind of make Lawrence's point about proprietary   
   formats.   
      
   >> It’s not a question that’s bothered me personally, because I was never   
   >> that dumb as to entrust anything important to proprietary formats for   
   >> long-term archival purposes.   
   >   
   > or ... never actually did any important work in that era.  /s   
      
   You sound just like DFS.   
      
       Using [ Microsoft | Windows ] == "important work"   
      
   Heh, new day same problem with dinosaurs:   
      
   --   
   "The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen...  The world's climates are changing,   
   the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a   
   walnut."   
   		-- some dinosaurs from The Far Side, by Gary Larson   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)