Re: Matlab File Format

[Jack A Walker]

You may be right but another possibility is that the various wordprocessor
venders actually license their formats to the format filter producing
companie(s).

Jack



To:   David Doolin <address@hidden>
cc:   Neil Davey <address@hidden>, Stefano Ghirlanda
      <address@hidden>, Daniel Heiserer <address@hidden>,
      address@hidden, "address@hidden"
      <address@hidden> (bcc: Jack A Walker/BII)
Subject:  Re: Matlab File Format




On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, David Doolin wrote:
[&<]
This must be true, and not just for now, but always.  Think about word
processors.  WordPerfect, MS-Word, etc. always allow the user to save and
import many file formats.  If they could be proprietary, they would be.
Same for SAS and SPSS, etc., in the statistical domain.  There are even
programs that work with hundreds of different formats and translate
between them.  No laws prevent it!

Go for it!

Mike

--
Michael B. Miller
University of Missouri--Columbia
http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/



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