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Originally Posted by JSWolf
HD-DVD is a proprietary format, VHS was a proprietary format, Kindle's AZW format is proprietary.. just about anything new is proprietary. So why does that have to be brought up as an issue?
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It is not true that anything new is proprietary. And for VHS the cost to produce one VHS player was so high that it did not matter (if VHS now was proprietary, it was well known how it worked at least).
The damage a proprietary format does is much greater when the cost to read the format is nearly zero.