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My solutionMy solutionPosted Mar 9, 2004 2:01 UTC (Tue) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010)In reply to: From code war to Cold War (BBC) by ccchips Parent article: From code war to Cold War (BBC) I do not store any data I intend to keep long term in closed formats. That means mp3 or ogg in preference to wma. It means Openoffice or even plain text in preference to Word and so on. Yes, I know mp3 is patent encumbered; how it works is not a secret. The worst thing that can happen is that I'll have to give up a favored application and use something else to open my data. To the extent it is possible, I use FOSS apps to create and manipulate data since the shelf life of an app in source code form is higher. If I have to sacrifice features for longevity then so be it. This is a trust issue and I don't trust closed software. In the case of your music software, if you hypothetically saved your music as .mid rather than some closed UltraComposer format at least you can still work with it using something else.
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