Explaining Open Standards email attachements

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 10:52:21 UTC 2010


On 6 April 2010 10:36, Matthias Kirschner <mk at fsfe.org> wrote:
> * Sam Liddicott <sam at liddicott.com> [2010-04-05 17:55:40 +0100]:

>> Widespread standards IS interoperability. Open standards merely
>> potentially supports interoperability - as the standard becomes
>> widespread. There are enough proprietary widespread standards, or
>> you wouldn't have had to write your document in the first place, I
>> think?

> Do you have five examples of widespread _standards_ which are not Open
> Standards?


Microsoft Word .DOC . So many people, places and businesses accept
them by default and often refuse to accept anything else. It's only in
the past few years that I've seen even computing recruiters accept
PDF, for instance.


- d.



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