__/ [ Tim Smith ] on Tuesday 27 June 2006 09:04 \__
> In article <1255901.bmDUVEogsk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> accessibility to a platform/product. It's a bit like DRM. Mark Pilgrim
>> recently decided to ditch Mac OS X in favour of Ubuntu. His albums were
>> stored in proprietary, binary format, so he realised the merit of
>> openness.
>
> Uhm...it was his email whose format he did not like, not his albums.
I was going to mention E-mail, too. His albums, IIRC, had some
manually-assigned metadata, which was lost and could not be recovered. He
also argued that his mail archives -- an historical life record -- was
stored in obscure ways.
Best wishes,
Roy
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