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Originally Posted by jswinden
I've never seen open source on any major technology work out for consumers. I know folks like to point to Linux and show how successful it is.
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How about Firefox? In actual fact there are a bunch of open source programs out there. Document standards are *almost* trivial as far as open sourcing goes. All you have to do is setup a standard, and then anyone (big business, open sourcer, whatever) can make a program that can read that standard. A document standard is just a fixed way of storing information -- for books that's font, formatting, text, etc. Nothing that fancy or complicated like an operating system. You'll find a lot more success stories on the small open source things like programs, since those are easier for anyone to use.
As for a reflowable document standard....that would be nice, but it is too bad there aren't any OCR readers on the market that deal with mathematics well. I'd like to scan my science books and use them on an ereader, but I couldn't make them very reflowable, unfortunately.
-Drachasor