Posts tagged with 'open standards'
Proprietary formats and lock-in. When it comes to discussions of digital content, these are terms you really can't escape.
A lot of that has to do with the evolution of digital content, which
arguably hasn't gone much smoother than human evolution. On one side,
we've seen many content owners fight the 'digitization' of their
content, contributing to rampant piracy and consumer dissatisfaction.
On one side, we've seen hardware and software vendors take advantage of
the chaos to push proprietary formats that lock consumers into their
hardware and software offerings.
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by Patricio Robles
14 August 2009 09:11am
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