[plug] M$ again - Digital rights in Office

[James Devenish]

In message <3F556F47.2080904 at wasp.net.au>
on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:34:15AM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > and the open-source OpenOffice. But rights-protected documents created in 
> > Office 2003 can be   manipulated only in Office 2003.                     
> 
> Is that like protected pdf's can only be opened and modified in anything 
> other than Adobe Acrobat ?

With PDF, the rights restrictions are superficial unless the document is
encrypted.