Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/22/07 06:20

"The Natural Philosopher" <a@b.c> wrote in message
news:1190395768.5917.0@damia.uk.clara.net...

> I have a theory that te MS WORD and its paperclip was invented by someone
> who decided that anything Emacs could fuck up, Word would be able to fuck
> up ten times more comprehensively with even less control by the user..

You can call your theory a fact.
Microsoft's Word strategy was one of their first "embrace and extend"
programs.

The idea behind that strategy is that there's no need to just think out the
feature set when Da Community has already done so.

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