Oh, but they wanted *fancy* formats. Ah."
Right. They want a full free featureset, presumably to have an identical copy of the original. It's exactly the point I made that the original posted skipped over without comment: 'Open Source' people don't want just the .TXT version, they want to have the answer in hand and let someone else solve the puzzle.
Ridiculous.
There are already open standards that were developed by the OSS community, they dont need companies to do it for them they have done just fine on their own.
"'Open Source' people don't want just the .TXT version, they want to have the answer in hand and let someone else solve the puzzle."
Again I don't think it's "Open Source people" but just another socialist government bureaucrat using a convenient buzzword in pursuit of the usual goal of "you do the work and I'll reap the benefit."
It's kind of like when a clueless manager starts tossing around talk about 'paradigm' and 'forward looking' and so forth; instantly you can tell the real meaning is "I will work you like dogs and give you no credit as I plan my next career move." :)