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

Tue Dec 6 23:29:05 UTC 2011

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> It is just a format.
>
> I just disagree with the original implication that because freemind uses
> xml it is automatically an open format.  That's the wrong implication.
> If freemind has a documented easy to read format, then that is why it
> is open.  It could be in lots of formats and still be nice and open.
>

Absolutely, there are plenty of XML-hosted formats that are only machine
readable and as opaque as any proprietary binary format.

Freemind apparently has a very nice file format for mind maps, because it
seems to have become a de facto interchange format for a bunch of mind
mapping programs.
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