8 Mar
2012
8 Mar
'12
7:52 p.m.
On 03/08/2012 10:43 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
Ok, there's the exception of people peddling such things to the
users. They're (possibly) not clueless...but they're certainly sleazy.
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.
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!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA