RexRed wrote:Our right to expression is not owned by big corporation...
Of course they aren't. That has nothing to do with your complaint hoewever.
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At least years ago I could get some birch bark, a birds feather, ink from a plant and write, now I need to buy a 400+ dollar office suite...
Before I could just record music on magnetic tape... Now I need a codec that are "proprietary" again... Codecs and word processors should be public domain...
You are confusing the tools used to create a work with the work itself. No one is forcing you to use a wordprocessor. They still sell paper and pens ya know!
Quote:Note pad should be public domain or some other word processor, something that will never change and you will not need a "patch" to read old files...
It is a gimmick they change every year the playing field... The basic functions should be Free... and the advanced features I don't mind paying for...
Whay stop there? Since all that software runs on a computer should Dell be forced to supply you with the computer? The computer runs on electricity - should the power company be forced to give you your own power plant?
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Actually microsoft windows comes with allot of features but you still have to buy the codec to make a distributable song...
Composers have been writing music on paper and playing the music on instruments for centuries. Again, you are confusing the tool with the product.
Quote:I don't expect the software developers to give out their intellectual property free... But wouldn't a bit more standardization across the board help rather than this proprietary format that is so prevalent. Especially in word processors and art creation tools.
Yup. And your writings should be limited to things that I like. That way I wouldn't have that pesky problem of writings I like and those that I don't.
Quote:This is bad form... and it hampers what is referred to as "freedom of expression".
What about the right to freedom of expression for those that create the software? Does it only exist when it benefits you? Any standards, by definition, limit that ability of the software developer to create as they chose to...
Quote:Broken software in epic proportions in the future and whole libraries "lost" to the world because of this lack of standardization... Nothing should be "proprietary" when it comes to standard tools for human expression.
The standard tools for hunan expression are sounds and images. It is up to the creator/artist to figure out how to use the higher level tools available to them to arrange the standard tools into forms that relay their message to others. If a higher level tool doesn't exist for the need than it's up to the artist to create them themselves.
The higher level tools are, in themselves, the creation of someone elses talent. What gives you, me or anyone else the right to seize the product of their work and force it to comply with our perception of what it should be so that we can benefit from it at the expense of their creativity?
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