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Originally Posted by tribble
And now you confuse open systems with standards. If you wanted, you could make your own electricity and make it a standard.
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I was reacting to somethings that rlauzon wrote:
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Joking aside: using any resource you do not control for something that you rely on is not a good idea.
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That remark is so general that you better stop breathing. Because you have no control over the oxygen supply. You can only hope it is always there.
Sometimes something is beyond your control, no official standard but a de-facto standard. It does not matter if it is open or closed then. It simply is there.
Of course everybody is free to create an open source ebook format. One can hope that it used. I won't use it, because there are no books available in this format.
Today the most common format is some version of mobi. It works good enough for most people. Can it be impoved? Yes! Will this process go faster when it is open source? Probably. Do people care? Most of them won't. It only has to work. Even is Mobipocket' stops today the books will still be there. I can make them, you can make them.
If you don't like the current 'standard' don't buy books in this format. But I think you'll have to go back to p-Books
The reality is that a lot (most) of things in this world are outside your circle of influence. And if you have to stop using all those things, live will be very difficult if not impossible