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by loup-vaillant 5927 days ago
> .odf may not win over .docx, but in the long run, both will lose to the cloud.

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).