Forgot your password?  Comment: Design of ThinkPad T431s (Score
4, Insightful) 271  by linguae (#43219249) Attached to: Are
Lenovo's ThinkPads Getting Worse?    Comment: Re:Free as in
Future (Score 1) 141  by linguae (#31886452) Attached to: Open
Community vs. Open Code  You HAVE to present to people a
tangible long term issue with using closed-source software that
they can UNDERSTAND. Geek ideology isn't enough, and if that's
all that you've got, then no wonder closed-source tech is still
going to dominate.  I agree completely, and I would like to
point out one area that open source can make some inroads in:
file formats. Many users of closed-source software use
applications that store their data in proprietary file formats.
While this may not be a serious problem for users using de-facto
standard tools such as Microsoft Office where finding a copy
(even an older version) is not difficult and where competitors
have created tools that are mostly compatible with these file
formats, this is a problem for users