Z:gnu-www-ja-can-you-trust--e87f24-Word processors such as Micros/en

Word processors such as Microsoft Word could use treacherous computing when they save your documents, to make sure no competing word processors can read them. Today we must figure out the secrets of Word format by laborious experiments in order to make free word processors read Word documents. If Word encrypts documents using treacherous computing when saving them, the free software community won't have a chance of developing software to read them&mdash;and if we could, such programs might even be forbidden by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.