Open standards alone are an artificial separation of code and data that is un-tenable. Source code without data and data without source code are not very useful. To be circular: a .odt (Open Document Text) file without OpenOffice.org is a .odt file without Openoffice.org. Major thinkers going back to Alan Turing have noted that the artificial separation of code and data is just that: artificial. It is like space-time. Time without space and space without time are meaningless. You can argue with me on this, but I don't think I can be convinced otherwise. Everytime I hear someone advocating open standards without or against open source I remember this.
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