[libreoffice-users] Re: Wordstar

On 11/5/13 5:44 PM, Urmas wrote:
> "Paul":
>
> > Microsoft, as the developers of the
> > OS, put code in their OS to capture the Ctrl+J key combination, and not
> > pass it on to the foreground application. However, they also put in
> > code to allow an application to request that the key combination be
> > passed on, code that most people, including the developers of WordStar,
>
> > Or, alternatively, Microsoft, as the developers of the OS, put code in
> > to detect a running copy of WordStar, and hide the Ctrl+J key
> > combination from it.
>
> > I'm not saying they did any of this,
>
> So you've just made that malarkey up? Wow.

It may be true for Wordstar, and it may not be.  MS lost a lot of court 
cases because of actions like this.  Geoworks is one case I know of. 
Geoworks won the battle in court, but the war was over.

So, I never trust companies that I know have broken various policies, as 
Facebook and Google have done.


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Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 24.0
Thunderbird 17.0.8
LibreOffice 4.1.2.3


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