----- Forwarded by Richard Meyer/Australia/Contr/IBM on 03/09/2003 12:37 PM
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Brad Campbell
<brad at wasp.net.au To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> cc:
Subject: Re: [plug] M$ again - Digital rights in Office
03/09/2003 12:34
PM
Please respond to
plug
>Richard Meyer 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 ?
Probably encrypted somehow. They did mention stolen laptops with documents
etc, blah .....
>How long do you think it will take to crack ?
Does anybody here envy DVD Jon in Finland[0]? ;) Pioneers sometimes get
eaten by bears when entering hostile territory.
RichardM
[0] Maybe not Finland, but one of those types of countries, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway.
>Brad