Digital Babel

[unixronin]

We're all packed and ready to head off to Maryland for Thanksgiving, and I'm sitting here waiting for my parents to email me a crucial form for our Medicaid recertification that was due YESTERDAY in a file format that we can actually use.  Why does every closed-source software vendor in the WORLD have to have their own friggin' proprietary file formats for common data like scanned images?  Come the hell ON, people, what's the point of having standards if NOBODY WILL FRELLING USE THEM?!?!?

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, realistically, I know that. And the cretins can't or won't grasp that by locking your own customers in, you're also locking everyone else out, and guaranteeing that if another company's product achieves market dominance, yours is dead because you can't inter-operate with it.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

if another company's product achieves market dominance, yours is dead because you can't inter-operate with it.

And given what you've just said, this is bad how? *evil grin*