From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 10:23:49 EDT
Hey!
It's not just downsides... there ARE upsides to that, as recently
revealed in the European Commission, which produced a document
recommending the use of software patents. This document *word doc* had
Sumarry, Author, etc... the Author... was... a proeminent employee of
Business Software Alliance, which is pushing for software patentes on
Europe *cringe*.
Well, as long as that is not included in the documents by default, I
tend to agree with Alan.
Hugs, rms
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 15:05, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>
> > Is the default for 'Company' taken from the Windows registry? If
> > yes, many PC manufacturers put *their* company name there, which
> > will lead to many documents with 'Compaq' and 'Dell' as the
> > 'DC.Publisher', which is obviously wrong.
> >
> > > After all, something's better than nothing, right?
> >
> > Well, not if that 'something' is incorrect ... :/
>
> And not if something uneccesarily gives away my privacy.
>
> I really hate the way MS office asks me for my username and intials when i
> turn it on and then stamps all the documents with my identity.
> I also feel no need to give free adversting to my hardware manufacturer.
>
> Who else remembers the story about Microsofts press releases being marked
> with metadata identifying them as created with Mac? :)
>
> sincerely
> Alan
-- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Wed May 15 2002 - 10:27:58 EDT