[ Thanks to M.
Fioretti for this link. ]
“Adobe FrameMaker is a “powerful authoring and
publishing solution for technical communicators”. I used FrameMaker
a lot from the mid 90’s until 4/5 ears ago and I have to say that I
found it to be a great program, with a better, more productive
interface than either Ms Office or OpenOffice. However, FrameMaker
is a proprietary, really expensive product that doesn’t even run on
Linux, so no matter how good it is it’s almost sure I won’t use it
anymore.“The problem is that I still have on my computer several
personal documents that I wrote and saved in FrameMaker format
(.fmk file extension) in the 90’s, that is before I realized how
badly proprietary file formats can impact economy, culture and
personal stuff. Therefore, right now those files are just wasting
space on my hard drive, even if I’d really like to access again
some of them. I am sure there are many thousands of people in the
same situation.”
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