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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Adam Twardoch wrote:<br>> * Microsofted consulted with Donald Knuth on the development of their<br>> new math typesetting engine
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<div>Even Bill Gates was a different guy when he was young and a programmer.</div></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">><br>and also, if i'm right, latex's author (lamport) has been working for<br>microsoft research for years now -)
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<div>It is good to have some fare competition but with monopolies you are talking about unfair competetion....</div>
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<div>TeX uses LISPish curly bracket notation, XML uses angle bracket notation, other than that I can't see anything new. Cosmetics are very important these days...they don't care much about content... it is so sad we have to hear lecture on quality typesetting from M$...
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<div>Suki</div></div>