On 6 April 2010 10:36, Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org wrote:
- Sam Liddicott sam@liddicott.com [2010-04-05 17:55:40 +0100]:
Widespread standards IS interoperability. Open standards merely potentially supports interoperability - as the standard becomes widespread. There are enough proprietary widespread standards, or you wouldn't have had to write your document in the first place, I think?
Do you have five examples of widespread _standards_ which are not Open Standards?
Microsoft Word .DOC . So many people, places and businesses accept them by default and often refuse to accept anything else. It's only in the past few years that I've seen even computing recruiters accept PDF, for instance.
- d.