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by nullindividual 611 days ago
I agree, the author appears to conflate file and format. From a complete reading of this post and the author’s previous post on this topic, I read it as discontinuation of distribution of the ISO file, but in both posts they use the wording “ISO format” almost interchangeably.

> I maintain that the ISO format has "had it's day" and needs to be retired.

Replace “format” with “file <for booting computers>” and most rebuttals would go away. There will always be edge cases, but this is again the author’s project, so their word is god.

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Right, the expanded title would be ".iso format" not "ISO 9660 format".