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Comment by jasonjmcghee

4 months ago

Parents point is, even if the software to read the format disappears or is much more difficult to run for some reason- if there are published specs, you can recreate it. This is why non proprietary formats are such a great thing.

I would bet that the vast majority if not all image formats that can't be read anymore are due to their spec never being published.

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