File formats: approaching the freedom crossroad
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| What's important to note here is that the nature of words had not
| changed; what had changed was that Microsoft had decided that you couldn't
| read your own information any more. Microsoft are not the only company to
| do something like this--Autodesk is another. People might say that this
| is not such a big deal, but I would beg to differ. You or I created the
| information contained in these files but someone else is then deciding
| if we can freely access it.
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| When you use free software like OpenOffice.org or Koffice the file format
| is always available to examine. This means that your information will
| always be available, regardless of the software version used.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/file_formats_approaching_the_freedom_crossroad
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