Open Source and Open Data by Derek Glidden Nov 13, 1998, 01 :21 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2005 reads)
Something that has been overlooked in the mess that's been stirred up
[because of the recent "Halloween Documents"] is the fact that Microsoft
already has already effectively "de-commoditized" the data that nearly
everyone uses on the desktop for the past several years.
Microsoft has locked-in a large percentage of the data on machines out
there by continuing to develop closed, proprietary file formats that change
with every consecutive version of their Microsoft Office suite.
