Mind mapping software, was Re: Is KDE 4 Stable?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:48:45PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Furthermore, there are an appreciable number of applications that have
> been written which are known to read and write Freemind-compatible
> documents.
> 
> http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Accessories
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FreeMind
> 
> Most entertaining is an Emacs Lisp mode for converting between OrgMode
> and Freemind.
> 
> Sure, there are "bad players" out there that use "New! Improved!  Now
> with XML!!!" (but with binary blobs of crap encoded inside them) to
> abuse imagination of portability.
> 
> But *THE XML FORMAT USED BY FREEMIND* is one that is reasonably
> readable and writable, and FUD thrown against XML can be as bad a
> thing as FUD thrown in favor of it.

I didn't mean freemind has a proprietary format as such.  I just said
xml does not mean open.  It's a wrong assumption to make.

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