En Slashdot está teniendo lugar un interesante debate sobre la inclusión de elementos DMR (Digital Management Rigths) en los documentos creados con Office 2003 y si ello supondrá directamente el final del monopolio de MS en las suites de productividad.. El texto inicial es el siguiente, pero vale la pena visitar la página y leer algunas de las intervenciones:
"NEWS.COM has an article describing Office 2003's DRM features for documents. This will not only coerce those running older versions of Office to upgrade, which has been a problem for MS in the last few years, but it will also shut out competing software, such as OpenOffice. Now think about this for a second. Even if the developers of a competing office suite could figure out how to get their software to open an Office 2003 document, doing so would be a DMCA violation, since they'd be bypassing an anti-circumvention device. I certainly hope the OpenOffice team will kick development into high gear. If there was a time we need a viable competitor to Office, it's now."