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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
go into their storage room, wade through a shelf full of binders, find the 3.5" floppy with BKTITLE.pmd, and hope that today's InDesign will open Pagemaker files almost two decades old...
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a) over dramatised. It would be rather a box of 2GB tapes (you still get drives for that) if they would have been thinking at least a bit about serious backups.
b) if they d have kept the original MSfile it would most likely an .rtf
i've been told they are a long time already regarded as a lingua franca file format in publishing since they can be imported by kind of every DTP soft be it on PC mac or whatever.
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I think they could be sold/licensed under those conditions.
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exactly that's my fear. Isnt it what amazon does?
Well if I want to
lend or lease a book, there are libraries for that.
If i go to a (re)seller, what i want is
a copy+rights completely covering private use. Be it a pbook or an ebook, my expectations when going to a seller are equal. I don't regard the latter as 2nd class goods. Also I'll never be willing to pay a pbook -15% price just for lending.