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...s over time, because they value their customers and their own property, and those who purposely don't even maintain internal, proprietary standards, and purposely change file formats regularly, and incompatibily. The former I call "Commerceware." The later is what I call intentional Hostageware: - Hostageware (unmaintainable source, unmaintainable standard) Any software can become Hostageware. If it is unmaintained, eccentric, etc..., that's a risk to the data contained in/produced by the software. Open Source doesn't necessarily mean Open Standard, or that the software will...