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On 13/05/11 18:26, Grant Sewell wrote:
For proprietary read 'human and not computer'. Its very very easy to take computer interpretable data and present it for humans to read. Its not so easy the other way round. To my PC an ODF document is just garbage compared to the same data in an XML file which can be made human readable with a style sheet. I'd guess than most homes and offices have encrypted (and lost) >90% of their data in documents.<snip> *Some* documents are in proprietary formats. Not all. Grant.
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