That's what's nice about standard formats such as text/plain, text/html,
and image/jpeg.
Indeed but what happens for example if you write a word processor that
has more formatting options than HTML?
Les sees that as not practical, he says so himself. Free and open source
folks see anything else as not practical, because we take it as a given
that we have a right to access our own data using whatever app we wish,
that the freedom to make apps compatible with that data is a given, and
that the data is almost certainly valuable... to someone and therefore to
us... or <whoever> would not have bothered accumulating and storing it in
the first place.
Thus the divide... User empowerment vs. the user is simply serving at the
whim of the non-free application's master, in the context of my sig.
My challenge to you is to come up with a business model where I can both
eat and make my code open source. As I have mentioned before I am not
anti open source at all but I also need to make an adequate income.
Les
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