I enjoyed your post Jason, and found it provocative in the most useful sorts of ways. Thank you for addressing the actually-rather-stable status of standards-compliant, openly-documented, digital formats. I’ve often heard an argument that roughly amounts to “I can no longer open my WordPerfect 4.2 document on a 5-1/2? floppy from my old DOS-based desktop; ergo electronic formats are unstable and not to be trusted.” Concerns about stable and reliable formats are, obviously,… [read post]