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Google Docs are still files. It's just up to the author (or even the readers) to keep copies outside of Google's servers. Unless Lab6 owns their own servers, wh
by nonameiguess 5y ago
Google Docs are still files. It's just up to the author (or even the readers) to keep copies outside of Google's servers. Unless Lab6 owns their own servers, whoever is hosting these pdfs can delete them as well. At least, in both cases, static files are much easier to backup and copy than entire three-tier dynamic applications. And readers can keep their own copies separate from the original, which isn't possible with an application at all.
- lmm 5y ago> Google Docs are still files. It's just up to the author (or even the readers) to keep copies outside of Google's servers. No they're not? You literally can't have a google doc as a file in a first-class way - you can export it to a file, but that's a lossy process.
- noduerme 5y agoYup. Another way to say it is Google will release a file format the day offline computing drops dead. It should probably amount to an antitrust case or at least a major class action claim at this point. That said, even with PDF specs it's freakin impossible to read/write that format in an intelligible way, if the person creating the document used even the barest amount of block alignment. Adobe started with an innovative notion about layout, but ended up making content extremely hard to parse, and actually tried to open source the engine. Google started with an idea of trapping everyone's data in a format they'd never make fully available, and then charging for the privilege of storing it.