'And if it's a PDF, you can go to hell!' I get what you are saying, and there are a lot of good reasons to believe in using the basic file formats (read: old f

'And if it's a PDF, you can go to hell!' I get what you are saying, and there are a lot of good reasons to believe in using the basic file formats (read: old formats, not better formats), but I think that this is a poor way of looking at the spreading of information. While a .txt file is accessible anywhere, it is certainly not always more readable. Just because someone could write their thoughts out in a linear fashion, doesn't mean they should. Slide decks are great, and they are sometimes the best option for presenting vital information to a large group of people. There are good reasons for wanting very basic encodings of thought, but there are also very good reasons to make things more complex (internally) to make them more simple (externally). Also, OpenDocument is hard to use, as is OpenOffice.