Comment by praveen9920
5 years ago
The article has great points.
Main reason for existence of lot of file formats is that enterprises don't want just about everyone access their files and modifying them. It greatly reduces the usage of their proprietary software hence their revenues.
I remember the days when open office trying to render doc file but formatting used to suck big time.
Open source softwares should leverage this kind of file formats for inter operating.
> Main reason for existence of lot of file formats is that enterprises don't want just about everyone access their files and modifying them. It greatly reduces the usage of their proprietary software hence their revenues.
I'm sure this does happen, but it seems more like MBA-paranoia than a legitimate concern. For instance I sincerely doubt Adobe has lost any revenue by using SQLite with lightroom, despite various open source tools being able to interact with their lrcat (sqlite) files.
it's the old business paradox, if everything was totally lean and solved, how do people earn a living ? you need a strong force to overcome this hurdle and show how to reorganize the system in the large