[plug] M$ again - Digital rights in Office

[Kai Jones]

following from this:
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/33990.htm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Meyer [mailto:meyerri at au1.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2003 12:31 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] M$ again - Digital rights in Office
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> Just in case you were getting complacent about M$
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> http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5069246.html
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>  Office 2003, the upcoming update of the company's 
> market-dominating productivity package, for  
>  the first time will include tools for restricting access to 
> documents created with the         
>  software. Office workers can specify who can read or alter a 
> spreadsheet, block it from        
>  copying or printing, and set an expiration date.             
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>  The new rights management tools splinter to some extent the 
> long-standing interoperability of  
>  Office formats. Until now, PC users have been able to count 
> on opening and manipulating any    
>  document saved in Microsoft Word's ".doc" format or Excel's 
> ".xls" in any compatible program,  
>  including older versions of Office and competing packages 
> such as Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 
>  and the open-source OpenOffice. But rights-protected 
> documents created in Office 2003 can be   
>  manipulated only in Office 2003.                             
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