8 Mar
2012
8 Mar
'12
8:17 p.m.
I wrote:
Certainly from an end user's point of view, there
is little or nothing
to recommend closed file formats, and it is in the interest of end users
to avoid them like the plague.
Dave McGuire wrote:
Yup. And since the vast majority of them are
clueless, the sleazy
people who peddle products based on closed file formats end up with a
very nice (for them) situation of vendor lock-in, where your data is
very literally held hostage for a ransom.
Not with MY money, thankyouverymuch!
Hmmm, that's some nice data you've got there. You wouldn't want
anything to *happen* to it, would you? You'd better keep it in our
proprietary file format for safety!