On 6 April 2010 12:59, Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org wrote:
- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com [2010-04-06 11:52:21 +0100]:
On 6 April 2010 10:36, Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org wrote:
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.
That's a nice example. In that case widespread standards are not interoperability but monopoly.
Indeed. However, as far as the users are concerned, they're interoperability.
If this proposed document is to be heeded by users, the writer needs to keep in mind when the user uses a word to have a different meaning to the one the writer wants it to mean. Else the users will feel the writer has been deliberately duplicitous.
- d.