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Gruber was commenting on a post about how great Apple's TextExit was because of its support for the "stable" RTF format. But he fails to acknowledge that RTF is constantly updated to mirror Word by Microsoft.
The awesomeness of BeOS's StyledEdit was that its files were actual plain text files, and readable by every other system. The "styles" were all saved as extended attributes in the filesystem.
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@robert@cornershop.network @robert I ran BeOS for a few years, but my bank wouldn't let me log in via NetPositive, and my games were all on Windows. As groovy as the system was (metadata in the filesystem! great multitasking support!) eventually the friction was too much.
I've got a laptop running Haiku now, but there's way too much friction for my current workflow. Still, it was awesome back in the day.