MS Format Flames Re: An attack on paypal --> secure UI for browsers
Jamie Lawrence
jal at jal.org
Sat Jun 14 17:14:41 PDT 2003
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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