Z:gnu-www-ja-ucita--a5c3b1-That could be a disastrous obs/en

That could be a disastrous obstacle for development of free software that can serve users' practical needs, because communicating with users of non-free software is one of those needs. Many users today feel that they must run Windows, simply so they can read and write files in Word format. Microsoft's &ldquo;Halloween documents&rdquo; announced a plan to use secret formats and protocols as a weapon to obstruct the development of the GNU/Linux system (2).