Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>

>>>>SQL is also theirs...
>>>
>>>
>>>Whatever gave you that idea?  IBM created SQL before Microsoft
>>>existed!  It has been an ISO standard since 1987.
>>><
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL>
>>
>>You need to learn some history. MicroSoft predates 1987 by quite
>>a bit.

But that wasn't his point. I don't know when SQL was created, and wasn't making that claim. However, his claim seemed to be that MicroSoft doesn't predate 1987, which is absurd.

Mike

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