____/ waterskidoo on Thursday 05 July 2007 20:11 : \____
> On 2007-07-05, The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Yet another reason for using standards for documents.
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6265976.stm
>>
>> Warning of data ticking time bomb
>>
>> The growing problem of accessing old digital file
>> formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive
>> of the UK National Archives has warned.
>
> The article makes some valid points but golly gee why bring Microsoft into
> this? Microsoft is part of the problem and now these people want to
> bring them in to provide solutions to the problems they created in the
> first place? That is lunacy sir. ODF should be the only system considered
> for text and ogg should be used for media archival purposes. That's
> at least a starting point. Microsoft? They shouldn't be allowed near this
> project IMHO.
Yes, exactly. And Microsoft already corrupts SVG and MathML in Office 2007.
They already artificially create intra-app incompatibilities. It's an outrage.
Microsoft now makes money out of problems it introduced to elevate profits
(force upgrades).
In an ideal word, evolution of the standard would be agreed upon by multiple
companies. Moreover, rather than forcing an upgrade, one can give a small
addon to, let us say, enhance $Office_Suite_v1 to have ODF 2.x support rather
than force people to buy $Office_Suite_v2 . The standard should be not be part
of the application. It's all backwards.
--
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