On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:42:34AM +0100, Jaime E . Villate wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:07:19AM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Microsoft Word format is completely ok as transparent copy. You can use it with many Open Source word processors and other utilities.
But it has many other problems associated: it is not standard and it is binary, rather than text, which makes it unpactical from the point of view of version control systems.
It's true that's it's not the best format one can imagine. But I think that if something is already in that format, it's acceptable to keep using it.