Many word processing document formats are binary files and not text files. I can't read them directly -- they aren't human readable directly.
Not necessarily relevant - as with the other point raised using the French language.
Wizards have distributed the source SRD in computer readable format (rtf, and previously HTML), so there's no problem with you redistributing using essentially a similar format.
The point is that if you are distibuting the open content for the computer medium, that people using that medium need to be *reasonably* able to view your derivative of the open source rules (eg tables and/or formulas that are expressions of the rules.
Any judge is exremely likely to allow that straight text, rich text format or html (are there any more?) is very human readable for the medium/market for which its intended (ie computer users).
There are clearly classes of potential OGC (sounds, etc.) which are not human readable.
Well, court decisions in this area are its all about being reasonable, and sounds are things that you listen to - not read.
As far as Wizards are concerned, they probably don't care whether the readability is achieved through sound, words, or even touch (using braille, for example).
Their main concern is that you cannot publish something derived from OGC, in a way where people can't clearly see what you've done, and build on it themselves.
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