"As Microsoft's ongoing efforts to discourage adoption of ODF (OpenDocument Format) demonstrate, locking customers into proprietary file formats is one of the most powerful tools for preserving a company's bottom line. Once they have a hold on you, they won't let go easily.
Thus, the war for free and open multimedia must be fought on two fronts. While it's important that Linux support all the capabilities that commercial operating systems offer, we must also continue to encourage aggressively the adoption of open formats and codecs wherever possible."
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/01/01OPopenent_1.html
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