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Why Microsoft cozied up to open source at OSCON

08-04-2008 11:00 AM
Last month at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON), it seemed like Microsoft was everywhere you looked, avouching its interest in open source. Thanks to the company's history -- including some very recent history -- a great many in the open source community viewed the company's presence with mistrust, suspicious of Redmond's motives and apprehensive of what would follow. Surely Microsoft must want something, so what is it?

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CLIT(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   CLIT(1)

NAME

       clit - program to manipulate Microsoft Reader .LIT files

SYNOPSIS

       1.  clit [options] litfile.lit subdir/
       2.  clit [options] oldfile.lit newfile.lit
       3.  clit [options] oldfile.lit newfile.lit inscription

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the clit command.

       ConvLIT is a program to convert Microsoft Reader format eBooks [LIT] into an open format.  clit supports three modes of operation:

       1.     Explosion: expanding a LIT file into an OEBPS compliant package, that is the original XML / HTML source.

       2.     Downconverting: converts to DRM1 format, also known as sealing the LIT file.

       3.     Inscribing: similar to #2, this adds a label, or inscription, to the ebook to mark that it belongs to you.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.	For a complete description, run the program without any arguments.

       -d     Disable creating multiple subdirectories.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -k   /path/to/keys.txt
	      The  DRM5  key file is assumed to be called keys.txt and located in the current directory.  If not, use this option to instruct Con-
	      vLIT where to find the key file.

AUTHOR

       ConvLIT was written by Dan A. Jackson <drs@convertlit.com>.

       This manual page was written by Joe Nahmias <jello@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  March 23, 2008							   CLIT(1)

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