Re: Matlab File Format

[Herman Bruyninckx]

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Jack A Walker wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, David Doolin wrote:
> [&<]
> This must be true, and not just for now, but always.  Think about word
> processors.  WordPerfect, MS-Word, etc. always allow the user to save and
> import many file formats.  If they could be proprietary, they would be.
> Same for SAS and SPSS, etc., in the statistical domain.  There are even
> programs that work with hundreds of different formats and translate
> between them.  No laws prevent it!
> 
> You may be right but another possibility is that the various wordprocessor
> venders actually license their formats to the format filter producing
> companie(s).
> 
Indeed: you have to sign a NDA (non-disclosure agreement) before you get
the data format...

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