On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 03:37:46PM +0200, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote: > congratulations on the update.
indeed! good job. thx. > As was just discussed on IRC, I think the definition of “open formats” merits > some explanation, as it seems to be broad enough to encompass virtually any > file format: "Specifically, data should be machine-readable, available in > bulk, and provided in an open format or, at the very least, can be processed > with at least one free/libre/open-source software tool.” > > I can’t think of any file format where a broken parser doesn’t exist in a > GitHub repo somewhere - including old favourites like Word and Excel. > Therefore, this definition seems of no practical value to me as a layperson. agreed with this concern my scenario was some obscure mono based tool or java nightmare could qualify but severely impede the access still. thx,s -- otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
