My Family Photos - and ODF
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| [Sun CEO:] "we're working with Google to ensure interoperability
| between Google's office documents and OpenOffice documents -
| leveraging ODF as an exchange mechanism. Any document created
| in Google's office can be trivially exported to (and soon
| imported from) OpenOffice.
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http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/microsoft_vista_microsoft_office_and
Related:
Publish And Perish
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| 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.
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| "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
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