Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> With all due respect, you might want to remind the Library > of Congress and the Census Bureau of your thesis. In the > last U.S. Census meeting in California that I attended, they > stated that they had no idea of how they were going to > preserve the Year 2000 Census data The techniques that I developed are widely known and widely used. The reason there is a problem with some data is entirely one of commercial profitability in the software industry. Every company that makes and sells computer software has a strong interest in making sure that it uses a format that changes often--so people will have to buy upgrades--and that is obscure and secret--so that other companies' software will not work as well with that format. There's no competitive advantage in commercial software using an archival format that will still work centuries from now; it doesn't help them make more money. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html