8 Mar
2012
8 Mar
'12
7:43 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
Closed file formats are indeed evil; only the
clueless would
disagree with that.
Anyone making money with products using closed file formats would
probably disagree. Are they all clueless? I don't think so. They're
making a lot more money than I am, so they must have a clue about
something. That doesn't mean that I like or admire them, just that
dismissing them as clueless is unwarranted.
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.
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"?!
Yes.