9 Mar
2012
9 Mar
'12
2:02 p.m.
On 03/09/2012 03:18 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
That was not at all the point I was trying to make. It was late and
I was tired; I guess I didn't word it very well.
I was trying to suggest that replacing one "closed file format"
(difficult-to-read floppies) with another is a really bad idea.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Closed
file formats are indeed evil; only the clueless would disagree
with that. But the important part of my point is: Aren't floppy disks
which have no reasonable way of being read, which is the exact purpose
of the product, the very epitome of a "closed file format"?!
No, I don't think they are. It's the difference between a genuinely
difficult problem (reading an undocumented floppy disk) and one that's
artificially difficulty (a file format that's 'closed' for legal reasons).
In any case, I don't think this is a good jsutificatio nfor a closed
image file format. The idea of preservation it ot make the data easier to
read/interpret/archive, not to keep the problem at the same level.