[kazinator]

Autodesk has a monopoly because, oh, web browsers don't have to open Autocad drawings.

The amount of media playback and serving software out there is innumerable. If most of it doesn't handle some obscure format, that format is screwed.

Getting a new format everywhere is a difficult battle; the adoption barriers are high. Even if the thing is completely royalty free, and comes with a great, open source reference implementation.

Something that is closed, and has no backing of some corporate consortium or ITU type body or whatever, is basically fucked.

[HakanAbbas]

You say it's not worth spending time on such work, discovering new things and pondering. I understand.

[kazinator]

No reasoning process rooted in reading comprehension can come to the conclusion that I wrote such a thing.