8 Mar
2012
8 Mar
'12
8:34 p.m.
On 03/08/2012 11:17 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
I wrote:
Exactly.
We do a bunch of stuff like that, things that make no sense
whatsoever. The one that dawned on me not long ago was the realization
that, every pay period, nearly all of us willingly hand over our
paychecks to what is well known to be the least-trustworthy segment of
society for "safekeeping".
I'd sooner trust it to the crack dealer on the corner. At least his
ilk is sometimes honest about being a criminal.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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!