[Liverpool] proprietary formats @ liverpool uni

[Scott Brimin]

I would have suggested using hell fire, eternal damnation and foul
language. But then that's flippant and I would be only half serious.

However, this has brought up an interesting topic about proprietary
formats and open formats.

I wonder if we (LLUG) can agree on formats that can be easily used on
Windows/'nix/mac's for various purposes. For example, it can be said
that a news article should be distributed in a unicode text file. This
way the users of various platforms can read it. Now I'm not saying that
I agree with the example but what does LLUG recommend as cross-platform
formats for the various purposes?

Ready, set, discuss...







Alan Pope wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:49:00PM +0000, Vladimir wrote:
>>    Week 4 reading, the article: Copying music legally in the digital age
>>    Technology The Guardian.mht was posted on VITAL in a proprietary web page
>>    archive format that can't be opened by
>>    either Mozilla Firefox Web Browser nor by KHTML [open source] engine
>>    driven ones, like Safari on Mac OS X platform. Indeed to read this article
>>    I had to go down to a place with Windows machine that had Microsoft
>>    Internet Explorer 7 (that was struggling to open it indeed and crashed 2
>>    times before opening the article).
> 
> Alternatively you could have just looked at the name of the file and figured 
> out that it's an article saved from The Guardian website:-
> 
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Copying+music+legally+in+the+digital+age%22
> 
> The first hit:-
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/09/copyrightlaws
> 
> Whilst I agree that using non-free formats is bad, I think you could 
> possibly have approached this in a somewhat less confrontational manner.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 
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