[LINK] As Go Document Formats, So Goes Video

[Stilgherrian]

On 4/1/08 11:38 AM, "steve jenkin" <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> [an enormous rant about Alastair Rankine's post that entirely missed
> the point and took it all as a personal attack]

Actually, Steve, I think you're completely wrong.

"Government files" have been a lot more than just typed words for a very,
very long time. There are maps, photographs, film footage, audio recordings
-- all of the many and varied things which might have been used as documents
or plans or "evidence" in the many governmental and judicial processes over
the years.

There's "government research", too, everything from film of rockets taking
off from Woomera to the map showing exactly which land was bought from whom
by the health department when the built a hospital. Or a photograph of the
injuries sustained by a worker when a claim was made for compensation.

As I re-read Alastair's post, I see no personal attack on *you*, Steve, only
upon the idea that "government files" are nothing more than plain text.

Yes, he used a little sarcasm. But nothing particularly nasty. Your response
is, I believe, completely over the top.

Stilgherrian


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