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Nonstandard formats are shit, but introducing new, nonstandard formats into a non-profit, longtime standardised arena seems really stupid.

Enter 'poweriso'. Iso management utility! Yes, *another* one. However, this enables you to make .daa files, which are the same size as regular isos, but - get this - totally different. Doesn't work with magiciso convert, can't be mounted by dt. You've got to use poweriso and their included (gay) virtual drive. Pffffffft.

Simple: Boycott that shit.

Virtual drives have genders? Or do you mean "gay" as in "happy"?

It's worse when you consider that most 'proprietary' image formats are just 'iso with knobs on' or 'bin with knobs on'. There's clearly a big call for a totally incompatible-with-anything format.

Sounds like trying to gain proprietary marketshare for the sake of it, like Sony often tries. Notice the original, internationally accepted open standard always wins (MP3/4 vs. ATRAC/WMA, CD vs. MiniDisc etc.).

The only place it doesn't work too well is with Office, but that's because everyone uses Office because it actually works. I still politely tell anyone sending a .doc file to me that they should put it in a format that people who don't use Office would be able to read.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:The only place it doesn't work too well is with Office, but that's because everyone uses Office because it actually works. I still politely tell anyone sending a .doc file to me that they should put it in a format that people who don't use Office would be able to read.

There hasnt actually been an open standard which covers any of what MS Office (which covers half a dozen formats) does untill very recently, within the last 2 years recent. Only recently is there an OO.o format knock-off rammed through some "standards" body, and no one appears to be jumping to it who didnt already support it.

Heck, the next iteration of XML based Office formats will actually have a standard of some type stuck to it.