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Originally Posted by Laurens
Not quite. Data represents actual work done by a user. Not being able to get to your data means that work is lost. Hence, more and more governments demand open formats.
An application (should the source not be available) can be recreated by any team of capable programmers, OTOH.
For example, it's far more important that HTML is an open standard than that Firefox is an open-source application.
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Good point there! Actually to write a new tool for a product like say Sony Reader or iRex iLiad, I just need the SDK to be released and I can write something to work with it. *IF* I want to modify the product itself, only then would I want the OS to be open-sourced.