This reminds me to video systems: Video2000 was said to be the best but died quickly. Sony BetaMax
is only alive in the professional sector, but VDF (is this correct?), always called the worst video
system in still alive...
On 2012-11-29 00:14, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
On 28/11/2012 at 15:55, "VA" <[email protected]> wrote:
That may be
the hazard of having a truly open and standard file format. It eliminates
a program's ability to survive.
This is far from truth.
Take a look at e-mail protocols: POP3 and IMAP. Do we have only two e-mail
server apps and two e-mail client apps, one for each? No. We have plenty of
servers and tons of clients.
Take a look at XMPP messaging protocol (this is what Gmail and Facebook uses
for their chats). Again: plenty of servers, tons of apps.
Take a look at BitTorrent file sharing protocol. There are many clients for
every platform.
We have standards for HTML and CSS, yet there are at least four competing web
browsers out there (although there was time when market was monopolized).
This list can go on.
Standard file formats are pretty much irrelevant to program's ability to
survive. It's number of features, availability on certain OS, UI, branding,
number translations and other things which are around standards that matters.
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