Re: [oll-user] Finally, the revised instructions - please review!

[Janek W. <lem...@gm...>]

2014-01-29 Urs Liska <ul...@op...>

> Am 29.01.2014 17:39, schrieb Marc Sabatella:
> > 3) the opaque-ness of the format could be an advantage if one wants to
> > protect it as proprietary
>
> Now _that's_ probably the reason that is most worthwile if you want to
> create a file format. But while not being a Free Software fundamentalist
> I'd actually "reject that out of hand".
>
> Just yesterday I heard that German research funders (Deutsche
> Forschungsgemeinschaft) will _only_ fund research projects in the area
> of digital edition (music or text) that make their results (content and
> software) available as open source - simply because the risk is too high
> to loose the valuable information in opaque files and non-open software.
>

Wow!  People with brains!  Tell them i love them :-)

Janek
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