Thursday, July 06, 2006
Proprietary and open formats
Here's an interesting article on ZDNet on Microsoft's newly-announced support of OpenDocument format. As the author notes, proprietary formats have one advantage over open ones: they can adapt more quickly to new needs, since no standardization process is required. By the same token, existing documents in the format can become obsolete more quickly. Both have their place, but we should remember that using non-open document formats for long-term archiving is a very risky strategy.
# posted by Gary McGath @ 3:02 PM 
