[sklug] FW: MS to buy Visio corp

[MECIAR,Vladimir]

V mailing liste dia (SW na datove a ine modelovanie)
sa vyskytla zmienka o odmene 2000 USD za naprogramovanie
istej funkcionality. Informacia je stara, takze nejde o konkretnu ponuku.
Ide skor o princip bazaru (mnohym okolo open source je tato myslienka
znama). Premyslal niekto nad tym, ci by sklug mohol nejako pokryt
aj takyto typ aktivit? Ide o profit aktivity, ktore by formou
sprostredkovania
mohli priniest konkretny financny prinos aj priamo sklug-u.

Vlado

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dan Cohn [SMTP:dan na internap.com]
> Sent:	15. september 1999 21:05
> To:	dia-list na lysator.liu.se
> Subject:	Re: MS to buy Visio corp
> 
> 
> actually, as discussed in some detail earlier, the visio file format seems
> to be formatted in a fashion intended to obscure the decoding. the OLE
> info for embedding is, of course, easy to monitor and has been externally
> documented, but the streams in the file do not seem to follow the same
> format at all.. I have actually had a $2000 reward posted for anyone who
 
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> can write an import library for .vsd/.vss to one of those free software
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> bazaar things for abt 5-6 months now. I exhausted my own win32 reverse
> engineering capabilities fairly early in the process. 
> 
> dc
> 
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Brian Pomerantz wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:05:36AM -0700, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:49:19AM -0700, Dan Cohn wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Y'all might have some interest in this.. :|
> > > 
> > > It just makes Dia that much more important, as the only significant
> > > competition to the Evil Empire in this space.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yeah, that's the only reason I joined the mailing list.  I plan on
> > looking over the source pretty soon to help with adding new features.
> > It looks like the drawing engine is pretty far along.  I also like the
> > dlopen() of new plug-ins as well.  It makes for a really easy to
> > extend product.  Has anyone looked at adding the ability to read in
> > Visio shape and drawing files?  I think they are pretty well
> > published.
> > 
> > 
> > BAPper
> > 
> >