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open formats > proprietary formats
Always.
Remember? MS-Word (2000 - xp) can't even save its own old formats from Word 6 and 7. You are lucky when you can open them without errors.
Not to think of places where both versions run together in one domain, because the company upgrades always just a bit. (not much money) Oops. Suddenly all workstations with Word 6/7 can't read the files anymore. This is just plain shit. (And yes such things still exist, because Microshit's licensing is that expensive)
Every good word-processing program should be able to read and write its own formats - even if they are VERY old. Isn't it sad that competitive products can read their own formats better than their programs can?
PDF is much better than doc.
It's not open, but Adobe doesn't change the format every second day so that competitive products aren't able to read it correctly.
And if you used the right programs, you could edit them, too.
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