On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 03:37:46PM +0200, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote:
> congratulations on the update.

indeed! good job. thx.

> As was just discussed on IRC, I think the definition of “open formats” merits 
> some explanation, as it seems to be broad enough to encompass virtually any 
> file format: "Specifically, data should be machine-readable, available in 
> bulk, and provided in an open format or, at the very least, can be processed 
> with at least one free/libre/open-source software tool.”
> 
> I can’t think of any file format where a broken parser doesn’t exist in a 
> GitHub repo somewhere - including old favourites like Word and Excel. 
> Therefore, this definition seems of no practical value to me as a layperson.

agreed with this concern my scenario was some obscure mono based tool or java
nightmare could qualify but severely impede the access still.

thx,s

-- 
otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt
_______________________________________________
okfn-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss

Reply via email to