XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: jedi@nomad.mishnet   
      
   On 2010-11-18, ZnU  wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In message , ZnU wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > The problem can be nearly as bad if you happen to be using OSS software   
   >> > that gets abandoned, which is not exactly unheard of for less mainstream   
   >> > projects.   
   >>   
   >> Never heard of an open-source project dying and leaving users’ data locked   
   >> up in a proprietary format. Cite?   
   >   
   > The format doesn't have to technically be proprietary; it's sufficient   
      
       That still doesn't alter the fact that you haven't done so much as to   
   offer a single solitary example to demonstrate this point.   
      
   [deletia]   
      
       Just the concept has problems. It's the sort of thing that would tend   
   to increase work. For a free software project built by hobbyists and   
   volunteers, that really doesn't make sense. There is no benefit to obscuring   
   the user's data or making it hard to migrate away.   
      
       Preventing an escape path is too much work.   
      
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