Comments on: Four legs good, two legs bad! http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2007/07/04/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad/ Freedom is the right of all sentient beings Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:52:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Tel http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2007/07/04/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad/#comment-39 Tel Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:26:43 +0000 http://yama.hosting.k-sit.com/blog/2007/07/04/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad/#comment-39 Take a look at project Gutenberg... all ASCII. I think we will see ASCII for many many years into the future. Those old TeX documents from 20 years ago are still readable too. There's another problem with trusting out recollections of the past. The way I see it, more documentation is getting online and is held within webservers. How do you tell when a news story changes a few times after it comes out? Copyright law prevents you keeping your own copies (certainly prevents you from displaying them) so history can be rewritten. Sure, it's all HTML which is a reasonably open document standard but that doesn't protect against sneaky rewording when all the data is "owned" by particular servers. Take a look at project Gutenberg… all ASCII. I think we will see ASCII for many many years into the future. Those old TeX documents from 20 years ago are still readable too.

There’s another problem with trusting out recollections of the past. The way I see it, more documentation is getting online and is held within webservers. How do you tell when a news story changes a few times after it comes out? Copyright law prevents you keeping your own copies (certainly prevents you from displaying them) so history can be rewritten. Sure, it’s all HTML which is a reasonably open document standard but that doesn’t protect against sneaky rewording when all the data is “owned” by particular servers.

]]> By: Maxo http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2007/07/04/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad/#comment-38 Maxo Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:08:37 +0000 http://yama.hosting.k-sit.com/blog/2007/07/04/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad/#comment-38 Thanks for the post. In many ways when it comes to Win vs. Mac vs. Lin vs. whatever it's just an operating ssytem. But when it comes to many other things, the freedom of access to information is very important. This is where the FLOSS movement stops becoming a technical movement and becomes a truly social movement. Thanks for the post. In many ways when it comes to Win vs. Mac vs. Lin vs. whatever it’s just an operating ssytem. But when it comes to many other things, the freedom of access to information is very important. This is where the FLOSS movement stops becoming a technical movement and becomes a truly social movement.

]]> By: Jim Campbell http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2007/07/04/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad/#comment-37 Jim Campbell Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:05:35 +0000 http://yama.hosting.k-sit.com/blog/2007/07/04/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad/#comment-37 Thank you for this well-written post. I saw the same story up on the BBC late last night myself, and couldn't believe that the British Archives would consider virtualizing Windows 3.1 inside of Windows Vista over selecting a truly open document format. Thank you for this well-written post. I saw the same story up on the BBC late last night myself, and couldn’t believe that the British Archives would consider virtualizing Windows 3.1 inside of Windows Vista over selecting a truly open document format.

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