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by adi92
5927 days ago
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I mostly share Google docs these days.. the user can download it in any format he likes, if we he wishes to download it at all. .odf may not win over .docx, but in the long run, both will lose to the cloud. On a related note, I hope we eventually have some sort of cloud-transfer legislation, that makes it easy for people to move all their docs from Google to say, Zoho without any hassles.. this would foster more innovation in the online office suite space |
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That would be a catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude. And I mean every single word.
The number one reason why proprietary formats are bad is because they don't give you full control of your data. Documents in the cloud give you even less control, and no guarantee. No amount of legislation will prevent bad things from happening (like, semantic analysis of your documents).
The cloud as we know it should die. Trust me, I am not the extremist, here. Or better, don't trust me. Just listen to the arguments (one sided and very well said): http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/ISOC-NY-Moglen-20... (video, audio and transcript).