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As it happens, we just had this discussion regarding a Word document from 1990: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39357709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
by morsch 3y ago
As it happens, we just had this discussion regarding a Word document from 1990: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39357709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39357709
- weinzierl 3y agoQuote from the article: "Converting this document from its original format was a bit of a victory for open source software. And a lesson in how hard document preservation is." So, opening this document was hard and that it finally worked was not because of Microsoft's alleged famous backwards compatibility- which is a myth in my book.