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The last few paragraphs discuss file format conversion. Unfortunately, many companies have weaponized data representation as a way to force customer lock-in. What should have been simple data has been muddied in a way that prevents users from switching to other applications. The only real answer is to do what many people do: keep old machines running the software necessary to open the old data.

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HTML5, a 'living standard' is a similarly weaponized version of HTML. Just the part of the specification that deals with parsing is prohibitively complicated and expensive to implement for new browsers.