Re: [xml-dev] What should be open/free? (Was: Low-end Office 11 won't do user schemas, ..)

On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 04:31,  wrote:

> Realistically, do you do all your coding for free? Do I write or code for 
> free? If we did do everything for free then, in one sense, our customers 
> would ... in the short term at least ... benefit. But it isn't a sustainable 
> business model, or so it seems to me.
> 
> If Microsoft made "fully open" or "gave away the source" for MS Office or its 
> XML what would the results be? In the short term? In the long term?

Andrew, that's not the point. No one is asking for the source code here.
They're all talking about the output file formats. The code is
Microsoft's intellectual property, but the data belongs to the customer.