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I'm familiar with the advantages of free software. But if you refuse to use proprietary software, you are, by definition, imposing a restriction on yourself. I

I'm familiar with the advantages of free software. But if you refuse to use proprietary software, you are, by definition, imposing a restriction on yourself. I'd also suggest that, when someone makes valuable business documents available to others (a fine example of 'free software'), and you decline to use them because they're in a ubiquitous proprietary format, you are maybe missing the free-software forest for the trees.

apgwoz 18y ago
> and you decline to use them because they're in a ubiquitous proprietary format, you are maybe missing the free-software forest for the trees. I didn't decline to use them. I suggested that it would be nice if these documents were in a format that was more open. Perhaps something with a half-life of 10 years. I didn't mention it before, but I've noticed that in Office for Mac 2008(7? whatever) the default file format is .docx. OOXML to my knowledge is now a standard, so it seems as though Microsoft is _trying_ to play nice with others. However, there's already another standard, OpenDocument.