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Originally Posted by dickloraine
You didn't really address any of the contra points to your position, you just repeat your message. And just saying things like "amazon destroys the culture" without saying how and in what sense, is not very convincing. Give reasons, not statements.
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notimp asks for facts, yet offers only unsubstantated opinion as fact.
Yet us start hearing not only reasons, but references for those things which appear to be personal opinion being presented as fact.
Anything less is just trolling.
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Closed formats in the field of computer science is not exactly news.
Nor is the concept of technically based vendor lock-in.
Experience has shown that both only inspire the search for alternatives.
Although notimp's point that they bring about the "end of the world (as notimp knows it)" is true enough.
As an example, one can follow the "For want of a nail..." chain of causality in electronic typesetting -
TeX (by Donald Knuth) was originally available under a very restrictive (and expensive) license -
Which in turn inspired a person by the name of Richard Stallman to find (well, develop) a functional work-around -
Which in turn inspired deeper thought into the whole situation of closed (and/or tightly controlled) software -
Which in turn inspired his promotion of what is now known as the movement to produce "Free Source" software -
Which in turn ....
Want references?
Start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
Good background, but it doesn't mention the connection with Richard Stallman, that will take you a bit of effort to find (unless you happen to know of it first-hand).
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During your research, you'll probably stumble upon this:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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Name dropping? Who? Me?
Probably.