* David Gerard <[email protected]> [2010-04-06 11:52:21 +0100]: > On 6 April 2010 10:36, Matthias Kirschner <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Sam Liddicott <[email protected]> [2010-04-05 17:55:40 +0100]: > > >> Widespread standards IS interoperability. Open standards merely > >> potentially supports interoperability - as the standard becomes > >> widespread. There are enough proprietary widespread standards, or > >> you wouldn't have had to write your document in the first place, I > >> think? > > > Do you have five examples of widespread _standards_ which are not Open > > Standards? > > Microsoft Word .DOC . So many people, places and businesses accept > them by default and often refuse to accept anything else. It's only in > the past few years that I've seen even computing recruiters accept > PDF, for instance.
That's a nice example. In that case widespread standards are not interoperability but monopoly. Best wishes, Matthias -- German Coordinator, Fellowship Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) [] (http://fsfe.org) Join the Fellowship of FSFE! [][][] (http://fsfe.org/join) Your donation powers our work! || (http://fsfe.org/donate) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
