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Originally Posted by jhowell
As I wrote previously, I believe that KFX is inferior to KF8 for some purposes. I did not compare it to other Amazon formats.
Please do not attribute your opinions to me.
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This is such a backpaddling weighing of words with an intent not to make it possible to attribute anything to you.
In the end it is your deeply held believe that daisies smell better than daffodils, and please let this be the only thing thats ever attributed to your statement.
What does that mean for the archiveability of kfx - and why do you insist, that you didn't say .kfx was worse than all other Amazon formats (it is..), but just the one you'd like to compare it to today?
How about you take a step back, look at the situation and start commenting on it structurally, and not just in the ultra micro focused way of "the only thing you thought would be worth commenting on was how two formats compared" - and apart from that there is no story.
For what its worth, in context - your comment back than was more than just a technicality you made an off handed remark about. In context, you talked about .kfx loosing significant "properties" compared to what we had before. This included older file formats as well - because, those are the facts. If you now don't want to extend your comments to have any broader meaning at all -
enlighten me with a comment as to why.
I've said it before, we have some very bright minds in here, who have done remarkable things in the past, but the constant fear to take any political or even societal "stance" in an important matter urks me to no end.
When push comes to shove - all everyone has ever said were nonsequitors, void of any meaning in regard to the bigger picture.
Sure, we can play this game.
So what you are saying is, that .kfx is a format thats TOTALLY suitable for archival purposes, and thats far better than .mobi (or are you talking about topaz?) in oh so many ways - you don't care to specify.
Nice public image about .kfx you are crafting here...
(Cursed if you say something, cursed if you don't - the question is, if there truly is the "neutral" standpoint you want to resort to - in face of the structural power mismatch (between Amazon auto delivering... (fill in the rest)).)
I let myself get shoved around only so much. If you feel the need not to be drawn into this debate - say so openly. I can at least respect that as a stance.