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?!?!?

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Hasn't the Unisys patent expired now? Or is it first-few-months-of-2004 that it expires?
But yeah, PNG does a great job for pretty much anything you'd want to use either gif or JPEG for.
(Man, this HP keyboard SUCKS.)