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   From: gordonbparker@yahoo.com   
      
   On 18/11/2010 17:00, ZnU wrote:   
      
   >   
   > The format doesn't have to technically be proprietary; it's sufficient   
   > that there not be other software that supports it.   
      
   Which in Open Source formats is generally not the case. You can   
   generally find something that will read an open-source data file   
   sufficiently well to extract data. An example might be MBox mail files.   
   These are used both by Thunderbird and Eudora, but in an emergency you   
   can actually read them in a text editor.   
      
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