On TV.com: Latest DEXTER Renewed My Faith
BNET Business Network:
BNET
TechRepublic
ZDNet
TalkBack 11 of 33:
Next »
« Previous
Not Really.
I never worry about proprietary formats somehow getting lost in the shuffle. What does bother me is abandoned hardware that is no longer supported so that any file format cannot be transferred to the new medium. For example, I don't know for sure what I have on some old Jazz disks from Iomega. I cannot find a drive to attach to a computer to check them out. It is orphaned data on a disk. It is probably nothing but I would like to check them out. It suffered the click of death.

This open obsession of yours is unfounded for I can save the files in multiple formats and even save it as a PDF from third parties thru the print function. This pretty much dismisses the open argument. Hundreds of years from now, the future hardware will not be able to read the current physical media anyway. This means that all data must be updated on the fly which means those future reads will be a few years old anyway to avoid orphaned hardware. My mistake was to believe you could use the jazz disks as backup as advertised. I know for a fact I can open those proprietary documents on those jazz disks. This is the real issue that Jeremy Allison skips over to promote open file formats.
Posted by: osreinstall   Posted on: 07/03/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
Reply to Story Reply to Message

Alert moderator to an offensive message

Subscribe to this discussion via Email or RSS

All of this Babble as an excuse to rant  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/02/07
Did you even read the article?  Michael Kelly | 07/02/07
Read until I fell asleep  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/02/07
It was very good reading, and points out a lot of the problems of  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
A fancifull read, nothing more  John Zern | 07/02/07
Back up, back up, back up  LordLiverpool | 07/03/07
I agree 100% !  John Zern | 07/03/07
Best Practice; Move to New Media Types Regularly  dumptux | 07/03/07
Formats Should Worry You  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
The Issue Is Documented Open Standards  dumptux | 07/03/07
Not Really.  osreinstall | 07/03/07
Yes, Really  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Never had a proprietary format problem.  osreinstall | 07/04/07
Microsoft Office is Only The Start  dumptux | 07/03/07
Standards can limit the immediate future  Patanjali | 07/03/07
Job getting you down ?  JeremyAllison | 07/03/07
How do you know?  Ole Man | 07/08/07
Histroy will always be the story told by  jacarter3 | 07/02/07
You've Never Studied "Lower Criticism", Have You?  dumptux | 07/03/07
Message has been deleted.  tracy anne | 07/04/07
Off Topic AND Off Kilter  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Lower and Lowest;)  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Did you learn your History from Cartoons?  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Well, we will certainly have more archived from the current generation than  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
Emulators and abandonware  scott1329 | 07/03/07
Borland Museum  tct | 07/03/07
Good article  Ivystung | 07/03/07
Not Necessarily So  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
They buried another...  Narg | 07/03/07
Birth, Marriage & Death Records (UK)  john.foggitt@... | 07/03/07
Which Reminds Me:  mejohnsn | 07/04/07
Cemetery 2.0  zmelkin | 07/03/07
Has a man ever been on the moon?  Mantvis | 07/09/07

What do you think?

SponsoredWhite Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads

advertisement
  • Smart Tech Expert advice on innovations in healthcare and the green technologies that make it happen. Find out more
  • Smart Business Discussion and advice on management issues that revolve around making your world smarter and more useful. More Smart Advice
  • Smart People The best and worst moves in the management and strategy trenches. Learn More