Hi :) I think you meant VHS but i really had to think about it. Interesting to hear the Betamax really might have outlived VHS afterall! People mostly moved to the various Dvd formats (including Bluray). Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: rost52 <bugquestcon...@online.de> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 1:47 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for >LibreOffice > > >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" <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> 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. > > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
