On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:40 -0500, Travis H. wrote: > Many of the anonymity protocols require multiple participants, and > thus are subject to what economists call "network externalities". The > best example I can think of is Microsoft Office file formats. I don't > buy MS Office because it's the best software at creating documents, > but I have to buy it because the person in HR insists on making our > timecards in Excel format.
1) You have told your HR person what a bad idea it is to introduce a dependency on a proprietary file format, right? 2) OpenOffice can read Excel spreadsheets, and I would assume it can save the changes back to them as well. -- Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>