Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Publish And Perish
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Alexander Rose, the executive director of the futurist Long Now
> | Foundation, worries about the impermanence of digital information.
> | "If you save that computer for 100 years, will the electrical plugs
> | look the same?" he asks. "The Mac or the PC--will they be around?
> | If they are, what about the software? " So far there's no business
> | case for digital preservation--in fact, for software makers like
> | Microsoft, planned obsolescence is the plan.
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> |
> | "The reality is that it's in companies' interest that software should
> | become obsolete and that you should have to buy every upgrade,"
> | Rose says. We could be on the cusp of a turning point, though, in the
> | way businesses and their customers think about digital preservation.
> | "Things will start to change when people start losing all of their personal
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | photos," Rose said.
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>
> http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/books-information-preservation-tech-media_cx_ee_books06_1201acid.html?partner=yahootix
> http://tinyurl.com/yyjqoh
>
> I bet HD (so-called JPEG 'killer') will have DRM 'extensions'. The above
> statement becomes a reality. I can't find it quickly, but Sun's Schwartz
> recently wrote in his blog an item on personal photos (at least that was the
> title... 'my family photos' or something like that). He stressed the
> importance of being able to access old data, which is why they work very
> hard on ODF adoption. I think the context of this blog item was their
> collaboration with Google (over Google Apps).
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| Imagine you're a legislator that writes a law, or a doctor that
| drafts a patient's record, or a student that writes a novel. And that
| five years or fifty years from now, you want to return to review your
| documents. Except the vendor that created the application used to
| draft those documents, the company that created the word processor,
| has either gone out of business, or decided to charge you $10,000 for
| a version capable of reading old file formats. Either scenario makes
| the point: Information always outlives technology.
|
| What do you do?
|
| First, you grumble. After all, the information you created is your
| information - not the vendor's. Just like your family photos, the
| last thing you'd want is a camera company demanding payment before
| you could see your photos. And that's the danger created by
| applications without open file formats. Remember, information
| outlives technology.
|
| That's why we, alongside some of the industry's most important
| technology companies, and a bevy of governments and agencies around
| the world, created something called the Open Document Format (known
| affectionately as 'ODF'). ODF defines an open format for document
| based information that's independent of the applications used to
| create documents stored in ODF.
|
| Which is a fancy way of saying if you write a law or a medical
| history or a regulatory filing in a word processor that supports ODF
| today, and need to gain access to it at any point in the future,
| you'll have the freedom to do so on your terms. Without being held up
| by an application provider. ODF is a true open standard, adopted and
| implemented by a diversity of vendors (from IBM and Sun, to Google,
| Red Hat and now even Microsoft), and embraced by an amazing spectrum
| of the planet. And it's royalty free.
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http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/microsoft_vista_microsoft_office_and
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http://slated.org
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| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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