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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by gloob on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @12:06PM (#864466)
You can have closed proprietary programs and have completely open standard file formats.

Sure, but can you have open free programs and closed, locked-down, proprietary formats? It's a separate issue, perhaps, but it's a very closely related one.

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by tjr on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @12:47PM (#864569)
With difficulty. There is free software that can work with proprietary formats, but those formats have to be reverse-engineered, and if the formats change, they have to be reverse-engineered again.
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