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

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 7 01:14:23 UTC 2011


On 12/06/2011 06:29 PM, Andrej Marjan wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org <mailto: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.

... such as: Lotus Notes forms output to XML. I found out that XML is 
not meant to be read by other applications. It's meant to be imported by 
other Lotus Notes instances that know how to make sense of the binary 
stuff stored in the XML.
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