--- Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Handling correspondence, and moving correspondence
> from one place to
> another after the patient, is a topic worth
> considering, and one that a
> FLOSS approach to may be viable.
This is another reason why free file formats must be
encourged. The use of proprietary formats will one
fine day, hold one to ransom. It is a bit worrying
that even in the FOSS world, things are changing from
ascii, ps and Tex/Latex to OO sxi and other formats.
With OO using more and more java, things could become
complicated in the future.
The loss suffered in Europe vis-a-vis the patents
issue, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the USA
patriot act are making things quite complicated for a
free, electronic publishing world in the internet and
outside it, and to information sharing across the
seas.
Nandalal Gunaratne
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